Matthew Kelly famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We become the books we read.
-- Matthew Kelly

#Book
Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. Hope is one of those things that you can't buy, but that will be freely given to you if you ask. Hope is the one thing people cannot live without. Hope is a thing of beauty.
-- Matthew Kelly

#People #Good Things #Given
If we will walk humbly with our God, He will lead us by the hand to exactly who and what we need, to those people, things, and experiences He has designed and intended for us, and this alone will be the cause of our deep fulfillment and happiness.
-- Matthew Kelly

#Hands #People #Needs
Let your life be guided by greatness
-- Matthew Kelly

#Greatness #Life Is
Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.
-- Matthew Kelly

#Important
Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.
-- Matthew Kelly

#Expression #Self #Culture
The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.
-- Matthew Kelly

#Discipline #World #Modern
The beauty of Catholicism is every human being's right.
-- Matthew Kelly

#Catholicism #Humans
Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.
-- Matthew Kelly

#World #Modern #Curse
Many people falsely believe that if you want to be holy, you are not allowed to enjoy life...Holiness brings us to life. It refines every human ability. Holiness doesn't dampen our emotions; it elevates them. Those who respond to God's call to holiness are the most joyful people in history. They have a richer, more abundant experience of life, and they love more deeply than most people can every imagine. They enjoy life, all of life.
-- Matthew Kelly

#Believe #People #Enjoy Life
We don't want to think about our weaknesses. We don't want to talk about them, and we certainly don't want anyone else to point them out. This is a classic sign of mediocrity, and this mediocrity has a firm grip on the Church and humanity at this moment in history.
-- Matthew Kelly

#Thinking #Humanity #Church
Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.
-- Matthew Kelly

#Noble #Climate #Modern
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
-- Matthew Kelly

#Prayer #Reading #Exercise
God does not want to control you, or stifle you, or manipulate you, or force you to do anything you don't want to do. Quite the opposite. God will let you do whatever you want to do, whenever you want to do it, with whomever you want to do it, and as often as you want to do it. When was the last time God stopped you from doing anything?
-- Matthew Kelly

#Opposites #Want #Lasts
Love is the wanting, and the having, and the choosing, and the becoming. Love is the desire to see the person we love be and become all he or she is capable of being and becoming. Love is a willingness to lay down our own personal plans, desires, and agenda for the good of the relationship. Love is delayed gratification, pleasure, and pain. Love is being able to live and thrive apart, but choosing to be together.
-- Matthew Kelly

#Love #Pain #Age
Life is about love. It's about whom you love and whom you hurt. Life's about how you love yourself and how you hurt yourself. Life's about how you love and hurt the people close to you. Life is about how you love and hurt the people who just cross your path for a moment. Life is about love.
-- Matthew Kelly

#Life #Hurt #Love Yourself
Never believe a promise from a man or woman who has no discipline. They have broken a thousand promises to themselves, and they break their promise for you.
-- Matthew Kelly

#Believe #Men #Broken

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