Pio Of Pietrelcina Quotes
Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly.
It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the Holy Mass.
The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you.
If you have the courage to imitate Mary Magdalene in her sins, have the courage to imitate her penance!
Humility and purity are the wings which carry us to God and make us almost divine.
Peace is the simplicity of heart, serenity of mind, tranquility of soul, the bond of love.
Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven.
Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly; and if He does not let you feel the sweetness of His love, it is to make you more humble and abject in your own eyes.
I feel a great desire to abandon myself with greater trust to the Divine Mercy and to place my hope in God alone.
A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
As gifts increase in you, let your humility grow, for you must consider that everything is given to you on loan.
Your tears were collected by the angels and were placed in a golden chalice, and you will find them when you present yourself before God.
By suffering we are able to give something to God. The gift of pain, of suffering is a big thing and cannot be accomplished in Paradise.
Let us remember that the Heart of Jesus has called us not only for our own sanctification, but also for that of other souls. He wants to be helped in the salvation of souls.
Pray, hope and don't worry. Anxiety doesn't help at all. Our Merciful Lord will listen to your prayer.
Always humble yourself lovingly before God and man, because God speaks to those who are truly humble of heart, and enriches them with His gifts.
It is true that God's power triumphs over everything, but humble and suffering prayer prevails over God Himself.
The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrificing, and with extreme effort.
May the Mother of Jesus and our Mother, always smile on your spirit, obtaining for it, from her Most Holy Son, every heavenly blessing.
Only in Heaven will everything be as beautiful as spring, as pleasant as autumn, and as full of love as summer.
In books we seek God; in prayer we find him. Prayer is the key which opens God's heart.
The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain.
The Lord is a Father, the most tender and best of fathers. He cannot fail to be moved when His children appeal to Him.
May the Child Jesus be the star that guides you through the desert of your present life.
You must concentrate on pleasing God alone, and if He is pleased, you must be pleased.
We must hide our tears from the One who sends them, from the One who has shed tears Himself and continues to shed them every day because of mans' ingratitude.
On this earth everyone has his cross. But we must act in such a way that we be not the bad, but good thief.
In order to console a soul in it's sufferings, point out to it all the good it can still do.
We are the administrators of our money. We will have to give God an account of the use we make of it up to the last cent.
Let us bind ourselves tightly to the Sorrowful Heart of our Heavenly Mother and reflect on it's boundless grief and how precious is our soul.
Always remain close to the Catholic Church, because it alone can give you true peace, since it alone possesses Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, the true Prince of Peace.
The more you are afflicted, the more you ought to rejoice, because in the fire of tribulation the soul will become pure gold, worthy to be placed and to shine in the heavenly palace.
The Lord our King will hold the door of His heart open for anyone who wants to enter for an audience at any time
Stay with me, Lord, for as poor as my soul is I want it to be a place of consolation for You. . .
Be comforted with this divine thought that your spiritual and physical pains are the test of the Divine Will.
Walk in the way of the Lord with simplicity and do not torment your spirit. You must hate your defects, but with a quiet hate, not troublesome and restless.
The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of trial and in the exaltation after the combat.