Mother Angelica Quotes

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God's presence.

How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.

Many people feel unaware of any guidance, unable to discern or understand the signals of God; not because the signals are not given, but because the mind is too troubled, clouded, and hurried to receive them.

I don't go to Mass every day. But I go to church every day. Just sitting there, thinking - it's a great way to start the morning, you know? You feel so good coming out, and your approach to everything is suddenly really clear.

I'm really in touch, whether it's prayer or meditation... there are so many powers greater than me in the world. I've been blessed and lucky enough to have been given a gift to share with other people.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

Now God has never shouted out to me. I've never heard God speak audibly. He doesn't have to.

God goes with me everywhere, because God is in my mind.

I want God to be speaking louder than the music.

Once God puts something in your heart - you know, God talks to everyone different.

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.

Wherever we are, God's in that moment, God's speaking to us, and if we've just got our ears open and our antennas up, there's no lack of inspiration. He's not silent. We just have to be listening.

The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

Silence is the only language god speaks.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

The most powerful prayer, one wellnigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is.

God speaks in the silence of the heart.