Mother Angelica Quotes

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for love of Allah.

You know that you have fully experienced love when you turn into love - that is the spiritual goal of life.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.

Great loves too must be endured.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

Dear is your heart and close your hand, I relinquish all to love's dysmorphic command.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

I saw the way she was looking at you, and I knew that she still loved you. More than that, I know she always will. It breaks my heart, but you know what? I'm still in love with her, and to me that means that I want nothing more than for her to be happy in life. I want that more than anything. It's all I've ever wanted for her.

When you love till it hurts, there will be no hurt left, just love.

I want to suffer so that I may love.

Love must wait; it must break one’s bones.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

Your love should be so far reaching, earnest, biblical, Christ-centered, pure, and self-sacrificing that the world may hate you for it.

What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love expands, enlarges itself.

Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice, by an intense inner life.