Mother Angelica Quotes

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

God has a way of helping you to move through suffering and actually become stronger.

If you bear the cross gladly, it will bear you.

If you carry your cross joyfully, it will carry you.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.

'Suffering should not make us bitter people,' my mother once said, 'it should make us better comforters.' Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they'll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

Everybody has some sorrow, worry, and everybody asks God for help.

We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it.

Yeah, you know, I like to throw myself on the sword so that others may feel better about themselves. I tell the stories that you all want to forget, but when you remember it, it hopefully makes you laugh.

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

Through the loss of my wife and many confusing times, Jesus was always there by my side.

In times of difficulty we all have to understand our responsibilities.

It becomes second nature, you know when it comes to life or death and loved ones leaving, having to be there for your family, not just emotionally, but financially or physically.

I think women in general, we just soldier on. Whatever it takes, you just have to do it. It's your job. Whatever it is.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings

Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says--'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.

When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got