Matthew Kelly Quotes

If you don't have time to pray and read the scriptures, you are busier than God ever intended you to be.

Anything and anyone that does not help you to become the best version of yourself is too small for you.

Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.

Whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future. Now is your time.

Our essential purpose is to become the best version of ourselves.

You will learn more from your friends than you ever will from books. Choose your friends wisely

We become the books we read.

Thought determines action. Do not let your whole life be a reaction to the things that happen around you each day. Let your life be an action.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

Every journey to something is a journey away from something

Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence.

Our lives change when our habits change.

God of hope, I look to you with an open heart and yearning spirit. During this Advent season, I will keep alert and awake, listening for your word and keeping to your precepts. My hope is in you.

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.

Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.

Let your life be guided by greatness

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

The way we see the world determines the way we live our lives

When you stand still, you reject the struggle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ultimately, you reject fulfillment, happiness, the dance for joy and everything else that is eternally good.

Work-life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction.

In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.

Love is a choice, love is an act of will, you can choose to love.

Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.

Discipline is the path to happiness.

We are not here to solve the problems; the problems are here to solve us.

To be truly intimate with another person, is to share every aspect of yourself with that person.

Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations. Catholicism is a lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life designed by God to help you become all you can be.

The beauty of Catholicism is every human being's right.

Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.

Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.

The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.

The measure of your life will be the measure of your courage.

The abuse of a good does not diminish the good of a good

For the day we accept that we have chosen to choose our choices is the day we cast off the shackles of victimhood and are set free to pursue the lives we were born to live.

Withholding love is a bit like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

All men and women flee from the witnesses of their wrongdoings.

we became the books we read.