I want you to get good ideas, crazy ideas, extravagant ideas. Your plans, your projects, your dreams have to always be bigger than you, so God has room to operate. You can give God a thimble and ask for a quart.
We are all called to be great saints, don’t miss the opportunity. Everything starts with one person… I don’t care if you’re 5 or 105, God from all eternity chose you to be where you are, at this time in history, to change the world. I’m not afraid to fail…I’m scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me, ‘Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more. Being afraid is not a problem it’s doing nothing when you feel afraid. The grace comes with that one step and you get the grace as you step. Whatever you feel needs to be done, even though you’re shaking in your boots, you’re scared to death - take the first step forward. You want to do something for the Lord…do it. Accepting the present moment like Jesus did is certainly a lighter burden. It is difficult, but the burden of the cross is light compared to the cross of uncontrolled emotions, anger, insistence on one’s own opinion, the frustration of trying to change others rather than being changed oneself, resentment, regrets, and guilt. We are commanded to love God with all our strength, heart, mind, and soul and our neighbor in the same way God loves us – it is the same love flowing between God and the soul – the soul and it’s neighbor. Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach. If you’re not a thorn in somebody’s side, you aren’t doing Christianity right. We live in such a poverty of truth today. It’s your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. 
God wants you to be in the world, but so different from the world that you will change it. When you have God, you don’t have to know everything about it you just do it. Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous. Holiness is not for wimps and the cross is not negotiable, sweetheart, it’s a requirement. After all, even the devil believes that God exists. 
Simply believing in the existence of God is not exactly what I would call a commitment. You can’t go to Heaven hating somebody. It takes a lifetime, and you don’t get your diploma until you’re dead. Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: ‘St.’ It’s a much more difficult degree to attain. For your holiness relies not on what you do, but on what you allow God to do through you. 
God will give you extraordinary light and the ultimate reward of holiness. If you want to be holy, if you seek meaning in your life, start looking into your own life and attacking your pride in all of its many forms.Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.
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