Mother Angelica

Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation (1923-2016), born Rita Antoinette Rizzo, was an American Catholic nun of the Franciscan order. She founded the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN).

[God’s] providence placed us in a time and state of life that would bring out our greatest potential

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Even the devil believes that God exists! Believing has to change the way we live.

Answers, Not Promises

Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.

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God expects his people to do the ridiculous so he can do the miraculous.

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I am not afraid to fail, I am scared of dying and having the Lord say to me, ‘Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more.’

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I don’t believe in the promises of this world. I believe in answers.

Answers, Not Promises

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

Elbert Hubbard

Straightforward preaching spoils the effectiveness of a story. If you can’t resist the impulse to improve your fellow human beings, do it subtly.

Isaac Asimov

As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?

Anne Frank

Tyranny is . . . not good for the tyrant—because he or she becomes a tyrant, and there is nothing ennobling about that.

Jordan Peterson

An automaton cannot arouse the public interest. A leader, a fighter, a dictator, can.

Edward Bernays

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

Milton Friedman

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Fred Allen

The disappearance of nations would impoverish us no less than if all peoples were made alike, with one character, one face.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Altruists, with thin, weak voices, denounce Christ as an egoist. Egoists, with even thinner and weaker voices, denounce him as an altruist.

G. K. Chesterton

When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

Thomas Sowell

As an ancient axiom states, the Church makes the Eucharist, and the Eucharist makes the Church.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

No matter how formidably communism bristles with tanks and rockets, no matter what successes it attains in seizing the planet, it is doomed never to vanquish Christianity.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I envy people who drink. At least they know what to blame everything on.

Oscar Levant

Literalism is simply not an effective way to extract meaning from the Bible.

Gerald Schroeder

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Bernard Shaw

You can’t get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That’s all you need to know about communism.

P. J. O’Rourke

Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The health and order of society depend on the rearing of healthy, happy, and well-integrated children. That is why law, though it may take no notice of ordinary friendships, should recognize and support marriages.

Sherif Girgis

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

Hannah Arendt

Nobody really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.

Mignon McLaughlin

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