Mother Angelica Quotes

I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not.

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

God is a being who is himself the cause of his own existence. His prerogative is to perceive before there was anything to be perceived. He is the creator of the universe; He operated upon nothing and turned it into something.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Time is not eternal but was created by God at the beginning.

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?

The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.

What was God doing before the divine creation?

It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'

My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.

Creation is absolute, 100 percent scientific proof that there was a Creator.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

If, as many people believe, there is a God, and that God made us in his own image, then of course we are distinct from nature, just as He is.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

Everything we see, everything that exists, is part of God.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.