Best quotes by Mother Angelica on God
Checkout quotes by Mother Angelica on God
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‟ 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.
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‟ God knows Himself and every created thing perfectly. Not a blade of grass or the tiniest insect escapes His eye.
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‟ Each angel that God created was in himself a masterpiece. Each one possessed his own degree of intelligence and his own beauty.
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‟ I am not like a pebble on the beach - a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of human beings past, present and future. No, I am a unique human being loved by God as if I were an only child - the only fruit of his creative powers.
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‟ Every moment of life is like a sacrament in which we can receive God. It is a channel through which God speaks to us, forms us, and directs us.
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‟ Holiness of life is not the privilege of a chosen few - it is the obligation, the call, and the will of God for every Christian.
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‟ 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.
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‟ At Baptism, I received grace - that quality that makes me share in the very nature of God.
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‟ God cannot forgive a sinner who does not acknowledge his sin.
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‟ God's word is always effective and produces whatever it expresses. My words, on the contrary, cannot create anything; I can only change what already is into something else.
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‟ God has always worked wonders through his prophets to increase the faith of His chosen people or to correct their disobedience.
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‟ Salvation brings the soul a deep awareness of God's love. Life takes on more meaning, for it now has a purpose.
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‟ 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.
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‟ Humility is preserved when I give credit where credit is due - to God.
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‟ Many of us use God's love like the manna in the desert. We take what we need for particular situations and then go our own way - thinking we can handle other situations ourselves.
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‟ 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.
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‟ No creature, not even the most exalted angel, can understand God or have perfect knowledge of Him.
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‟ 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.
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‟ We are so accustomed to love on a human level that we find loving God for Himself either impossible or beyond our capabilities. We tend to love those who appeal to us, render us a service, or are good to us. In the degree they perform these various services, we love them.
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‟ Each one of us sees Jesus in a different way. To some, He was prophet, for they needed to know the kingdom was at hand. But most of all, He was the son of God, and He came to experience the consequences of the curse the Father had put upon mankind when Adam and Eve disobeyed.
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‟ The sinner who suddenly realizes God's love for him and then looks at his rejection of that love feels a loss similar to the death of a loved one. A deep void is created in the soul and a loneliness akin to the agony of death.
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