Angela Merici famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.
-- Angela Merici

#Trying #Force #Accomplish
You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.
-- Angela Merici

#Kind #Used #Should
Strive to be faithful to that which God has called you.
-- Angela Merici

#Faithful #Being Faithful #Strive
Do not lose heart, even if you should discover that you lack qualities necessary for the work to which you are called. He who called you will not desert you, but the moment you are in need he will stretch out his saving hand.
-- Angela Merici

#Heart #Godly #Hands
We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.
-- Angela Merici

#Winning #Giving #Soul
Consider that the devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.
-- Angela Merici

#Sleep #Devil #Way
Reflect that in reality you have a greater need to serve [the poor] than they have of your service.
-- Angela Merici

#Reality #Needs #Poor
Keep to the ancient way and custom of the Church, established and confirmed by so many Saints under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. And live a new life. Pray, and get others to pray, that God not abandon His Church, but reform it as He pleases, and as He sees best for us, and more to His honor and glory.
-- Angela Merici

#Inspiration #Honor #Church

If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.
I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
It's hard to force creativity and humor.
Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.
No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
Men always say, "Let's see what you can do." If we always talk and never work we will not accomplish anything.
If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.

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