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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.-St. Padre Pio
Oh, how precious time is! Blessed are those who know how to make good use of it. Oh, if only all could understand how precious time is, undoubtedly everyone would do his best to spend it in a praiseworthy manner!-St. Padre Pio
In order to attract us, the Lord grants us many graces that we believe can easily obtain Heaven for us. We do not know, however, that in order to grow, we need hard bread: the cross, humiliation, trials and denials.-St. Padre Pio
Joy, with peace, is the sister of charity. Serve the Lord with laughter.-St. Padre Pio
In all the free time you have, once you have finished your duties of state, you should kneel down and pray the Rosary. Pray the Rosary before the Blessed Sacrament or before a crucifix.-St. Padre Pio
Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God’s heart. You must speak to Jesus not only with your lips, but with your heart. In fact on certain occasions you should only speak to Him with your heart.-St. Padre Pio
Let us bind ourselves tightly to the Sorrowful Heart of our Heavenly Mother and reflect on its boundless grief and how precious is our soul.-St. Padre Pio
Have courage and do not fear the assaults of the Devil. Remember this forever; it is a healthy sign if the devil shouts and roars around your conscience, since this shows that he is not inside your will.-St. Padre Pio
Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.-St. Padre Pio
The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of the trial and in the exaltation after the combat.-St. Padre Pio
God enriches the soul which empties itself of everything.-St. Padre Pio
Do not fear. Jesus is more powerful than all hell. At the invocation of his name every knee in heaven, on earth and in hell must bend before Jesus; this is a consolation for the good and terror for evil._St. Padre Pio
I want to be only a poor friar who prays – if God sees blemishes even in the angels, can you imagine what He sees in me!-St. Padre Pio
When you gossip about a person it means that you have removed the person from your heart. But be aware, when you remove a man from your heart, Jesus also goes away from your heart with that man.-St. Padre Pio
Where there is no obedience there is no virtue, where there is no virtue there is no good, where there is no good there is no love, where there is no love, there is no God, and where there is no God there is no Paradise.-St. Padre Pio
Don’t ever be pleased with yourself because of some goodness that you might discover in yourself, because it all comes to you from God, and to Him must you give the honor and glory.-St. Padre Pio
Invoke your Guardian Angel who will enlighten you. God gave you your Guardian Angel for this reason. So make use of your Angel’s service.-St. Padre Pio
Walk the way of the Lord in simplicity; do not torment your spirit. Speak the truth, always the truth.-St. Padre Pio
Don’t allow the sad sight of human injustice to sadden your soul; someday you will see the unfailing justice of God triumph over it!-St. Padre Pio
When you are exposed to any trial, be it physical or moral, bodily or spiritual, the best remedy is the thought of him who is our life, and not think of the one without joining to it the thought of the other.-St. Padre Pio
Even if you were to commit all the sins in the world, Jesus would repeat to you: “Many of your sins are forgiven because you have loved much.”
Every Holy Mass, heard with devotion, produces in our souls marvelous effects, abundant spiritual and material graces which we, ourselves, do not know…It is easier for the earth to exist without the sun than without the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass!-St. Padre Pio
Those strong and generous in heart do not complain except for a strong reason, and even then it does not affect them intimately.-St. Padre Pio
If the world could see the beauty of a soul without sin, all sinners, all non-believers would instantly convert (their lives).-St. Padre Pio
