When anyone arouses my anger, I will immediately pray for them and regain my peace of soul.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of maintaining inner peace and responding to anger with compassion and prayer.
Mother Angelica highlights a powerful strategy for managing anger: instead of reacting negatively, she suggests choosing to pray for those who provoke this emotion. By doing so, one can restore their own tranquility and foster a more compassionate response, ultimately leading to personal peace and emotional resilience amidst conflict.
In practice
During a team meeting after a heated discussion, I reminded everyone that when we feel angry, we should take a moment to pray for each other, as Mother Angelica suggested.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.
The wine of this fleeting world caused your head to ache.
Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
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