Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Some people spend their time and thoughts in feeling, hearing, seeing, and listening. Whatever cannot be felt or experienced they will not accept. We call these people 'emotional.' "

Mother Angelica

Listening

People

Thoughts

Related Quotes:

" Humility is preserved when I give credit where credit is due - to God. "

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

Mother Angelica

Seems

Tunnel

" Religious life is an encounter with the living God. Sometimes that encounter is preceded by a kind of soul-searching agony that tries desperately not to hear, runs in the opposite direction, and frantically tries to reason itself out of answering the invitation. "

" Jesus told us to learn from him how to be meek and humble of heart. We must look at his life if we are to have any concept of what humility is all about. "

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

" We live in an age of technology and science that demands proof, and yet we desire mystery. But when God gives us mystery, we seek to destroy it by gross indifference or childish reasoning. "

" I do not ask for the riches that perish or the fame that fades away like a morning mist. "

Mother Angelica

Ask

Away

" A family spirit is not always synonymous with family life. Bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh makes for brothers, sisters and relatives, who may be as distant as strangers in a foreign land. "

" 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. "

" Married life has become to many a necessary burden, but a burden that is shed very easily. "

" 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. "

" Obedience is a strong virtue, capable of making me master of my emotions by giving me more strength to conquer my pride as I submit to those above me out of respect for their God-given authority and those below me out of love. "

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

" The woman is a gentle, loving bond who encourages, consoles, builds, reconciles, and makes all things new and vibrant. The woman is strength in time of suffering, courageous in failure, intuitive in time of danger. A woman is ingenuous when all fails, resourceful in times of want, and a true helpmate for man. "

" No matter what Jesus did, someone found fault with it. "

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

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

" Saints are ordinary people who do what they do for the love of Jesus, say what they must say without fear, love their neighbor even when they are cursed by him, and live without regret over yesterday or fear of tomorrow. "

" For thirty years, Jesus never allowed his divinity to manifest itself. He was infinitely superior to everyone but never showed it. "

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

" The proud intellectual seeks knowledge about God, but he never knows God, because he cannot accept the mysteries that he is unable to fully comprehend. "

" Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing. "

" To God, all things are present; there is no past or future - it is all now. "

" Every individual we meet is different than we are. Members of the same family differ one from the other. Friend differs from friend, husband from wife, sister from brother, nation from nation. All these differences make 'feeling' love difficult and isolated to specific individuals according to our tastes and their personalities. "

" People live, work, walk, play, shop, study, and eat with other people. There are few desert dwellers who live alone without depending in some way on people. "

" When our neighbor's personality possesses harsh qualities, we show our love by not voluntarily provoking those qualities in any way. Past experience shows us what upsets a person, so in their presence we are careful not to do or say those things that cause anger. We are self-effacing. "

" From the time of Adam and Eve, man has tried to escape suffering in any form. "

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

" I cannot bring Christ to my neighbor and to the world if I have not first given him to my family. "