Mother Angelica Quotes

There is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God's power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God's wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him.

True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.

We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.

Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

God is definitely out of the closet.

The more you try to grip control of your life the more God's gonna untangle that from you. He's going to make things go where you have to rely on Him.

All of the people are the dependents of Allah.

There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.

We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to the Lord alone. Blessed is the wind that drives the ship into the harbor. Blessed is the distress that forces us to rest in our God.

God allows us to dace difficulties so that our faith will be stretched and refined. The trials we face provide an excellent opportunity for us to declare our dependence on God and not on ourselves. The way we win the battle with discouragement is by humbling ourselves before God and telling Him that we need Him. There is only one way to do this, and it is through prayer.

True humility means total dependence on God for everything.

O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

Without my Savior, I am nothing.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?

It pleases our heavenly Father when we acknowledge and confess to Him our inability to run our own lives. That is what we are doing when we say, "Father, help me! I need You!"

Do not measure God's mind by your own.

The very thing that most qualifies us to pray is our helplessness.