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" God has given each one of us a gift greater than a thousand I.B.M. machines. It is called a memory, and everything that passes through our five senses is stored in this faculty. "

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" My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it. "

Mother Angelica

My Life

Life

Soul

" God cannot forgive a sinner who does not acknowledge his sin. "

" Today's man of the world proclaims that sin, and his enterprising in sin, are a part of modern living, but it is not modern. It goes back to Adam and Eve - to desire and the temptation to know - to experience evil. "

" Even if my fellow man has proven faithless time after time, I can at least retain a hope that he will improve, pray for him, and think kindly without frustration and disappointment. "

" Any form of over-indulgence creates within the body warning signs of destruction. "

" My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, learn to depend more on Him than myself, gained self-knowledge, and seen things in their right perspective. "

" Mary's life was a perfect imitation of Jesus. She was humble, hidden, sorrowful and afflicted, but she also knew joys that never entered the heart of man. She is all things to all men that she might understand their failings, though she failed not. "

" To a pagan, there is no purpose to suffering. As a result, he lives a life of loneliness and frustration. "

" The wisdom of God is so great that He also knows exactly what I would think and do under every possible circumstance and situation, and he placed me in that state of life and situation best suited for my salvation. "

" Death at times seems like a dark tunnel to be traveled, and the future seems bleak. "

Mother Angelica

Seems

Tunnel

" It is good to have an intellectual awareness of our dependence upon God - to understand how great He is and how very small we are in His sight. "

" God knows Himself and every created thing perfectly. Not a blade of grass or the tiniest insect escapes His eye. "

" Jesus feels my sorrow greater than I, for his love is infinite, and he suffers in an infinite way. "

" Jesus showed me what it means to be holy - he did his father's will no matter how difficult it was to accomplish. "

Mother Angelica

Will

Father

" I must listen as God speaks to my soul through good thoughts, inspirations, and intuitions. "

" We often forget that everything we see, animate or inanimate, is a visual manifestation of the work of our invisible God. We have become so accustomed to trees, mountains, sky, air, water, flowers, animals, vegetables and people that we no longer see them for what they are - God's work. "

" Jesus asks me to go to him when I am overburdened. He did not promise to take away those burdens, for I must carry mine as he carried his. "

Mother Angelica

Him

" When man invents or produces anything of any value, volumes are written on the subject. "

" Jesus did not always like the Apostles' way of acting, but by adapting himself to their temperament, praying for them to his father, giving them a holy example of conduct, he loved them, and that love changed them. "

" Love fills and empties simultaneously. It makes us reach out to God, ready to be pruned, recklessly desiring whatever the cost. It soothes the aching heart and then makes it thirst for more. "

" Jesus made Himself available to everyone. Unlike former prophets and the religious men of His day, who often kept themselves aloof, Jesus was easy to approach and always ready to give his help. "

" There are many who are not guilty of doing anything wrong but very guilty of sins of omission - the things they neglect to do - the good things - the kind, thoughtful words, compassionate thoughts and hopeful attitudes they might have had towards their neighbor. "

" Our memories are our own, and we cannot blame anything or anyone in the past for any pain dwelling there. If we open the door to them or keep hashing over past incidents in our minds, we have only ourselves to blame. "

" A sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible reality. "

" When our weaknesses affect health and friendship, we are very much aware of their existence. "

" Saints are ordinary people who love Jesus, try to be like him, are faithful to the duties of their state in life, sacrifice themselves for their neighbor, and keep their hearts and minds free of this world. "

" I must not permit the evil capabilities of human nature to sour my faith in the tremendous good that is possible despite the frailty of that nature. "

" God has always worked wonders through his prophets to increase the faith of His chosen people or to correct their disobedience. "

" Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity. "

" For me, a thing must exist before I know it, but with God, it is different - he must know it before it has existence. "

Mother Angelica

Existence

Know