130 Quotes by Mother Angelica

There should be in the life of every married couple a continual building of the sacrament.

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.'

Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.

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.

Every time I say 'no' to a small temptation, I strengthen my will to say 'no' to a greater one.

Love is an emotional feeling on a human level and a faith experience on a supernatural level.

Love has been defined, analyzed, explained and excused. It has been the cause of wars, feuds, heroism, martyrdom, inordinate passion, and beautiful friendships. It pulls two people of opposite temperaments together into a married state and permits them to live happily. It makes friends understand each other without the necessity of words.

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

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.