Mother Angelica Quotes

I don't want a monument. We don't build monuments; we build God's Kingdom.

No holiday, no job, no amount of money, not even my own security can mean more to me than my love for God.

Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.

God can show you just what you need to give, even if you don't know exactly why you're giving it. That's why we should always seek God and prepare to give Him our very best.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

Charity can be the outward expression of faith and hope.

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

At the end of the day that's why I play the game, to glorify Him in everything I do and to compete for Him.

Obviously, with my faith, too, I don't want to seem like it's all about me, me, me. It takes away from what I do for Him, for the Lord.

The CrossFit games, the four-time Fittest Man on Earth isn't about me. It's about Him and the talents that I've been given. It's my way to glorify Him through what I do.

One thing faith always did for me is it gave me perspective that, yeah, I was to maximize my gift and talents in the area of football, but it was always a means to glorify God and represent God.

January is the beginning of a new year for us in the Western world. Let us give to God what belongs to him: the first hours of our day, the first month of the year, the first of our increase, the first in every area of our life. It's devoted... The principle of first fruits is that when you give God the first, he governs the rest and redeems in.

He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.

It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.

Christmas means giving. The Father gave his Son, and the Son gave his life. Without giving there is no true Christmas, and without sacrifice there is no true worship.

Don't concentrate on what you lack, concentrate on what you have. Then give all of it to Jesus for His use.

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps.

My wife and I love children. We have five of our own. I would ask that anyone who looks up to me would instead look up to God. I am nothing without Him. Everything I do in life and in baseball is to glorify Him.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Giving is a really big thing around Christmas, as well it should be. Christmas is about giving, and it all stems from the greatest gift the world has ever received - the gift of Jesus Christ.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Praying doesn't mean repeating a prayer.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?