“Holiness of life is not the privilege of a chosen few - it is the obli...” — Mother Angelica Quote

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Here we must take account of one of St. Thomas's conceptual distinctions, which at first seems like unnecessary caviling. It is the distinction between "uncreated" and "created" happiness. We have here something which, while not at all obvious, is nevertheless fraught with consequences for our whole feeling about life. Namely, this: what does indeed make us happy is the infinite and uncreated richness of God; but participation in this, happiness itself, is entirely a "creatural" reality governed from within by our humanity; it is not something that descends overwhelmingly upon us from outside. That is, it is not only something that happens to us; we ourselves are intensely active participants in our own happiness.”

“I do not know the answers to life's hard questions, but I do know the One who knows them and that's sufficient...for now.”

“All beings exist and nothing else”

“Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.”

“If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!”