Mother Angelica Quotes

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything." Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba.

If you're not frightened that you might fail, you'll never do the job. If you're frightened, you'll work like crazy.

Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.

The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.

Meet your fears with faith.

When fear knocks, to let faith answer the door.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

There's an antidote to our fears- trust. If we trust God more,we can fear less.

What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.

Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.

Faith is the antidote for fear.

What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?

Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even this fear. At such moments we were free-men without shadows, dismissed from the ranks of the mortal; it was the most complete experience of freedom that can be granted a man.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

Where there is fear there is no religion.

To fear and not be afraid- that is the paradox of faith.

I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.

The way you silence fear is to give attention to faith.

Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.

As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.

Fear calls out our doubts; God calls out our names.