Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart, it's a requirement.

- Mother Angelica

Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.

- Mother Angelica

We did not happen to be--we were chosen by God to exist.

- Mother Angelica

It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth tod…

- Mother Angelica

Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: 'St.' It's a much more difficult degree to attain. It takes a li…

- Mother Angelica

Simply believing in the existence of God is not exactly what I would call a commitment. After all, even the devil believes that God exists. Believing…

- Mother Angelica

If you want to be holy, if you seek meaning in your life, start looking into your own life and attacking your pride in all of its many forms. God wil…

- Mother Angelica

Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.

- Mother Angelica

Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous. When you have God, you don’t have to know everything about it; you just …

- Mother Angelica