QUOTATION: Fighting Sin

You don't dispel Satan using Satan's ways.

-- Padre Pio

QUOTATION: O Happy Fault

Blessed is the crisis that made you grow, the fall that made you gaze up to heaven, the problem that made you look for God!

--St Padre Pio

QUOTATION: Worthiness

You don’t have to be worthy, you only have to be willing.

--St. Padre Pio

QUOTATION: Carrying the Cross

In this life Jesus does not ask you to carry the heavy cross with Him, but a small piece of his cross, a piece that consists of human suffering.

--St. Padre Pio

QUOTATION: Mockery

Do not worry about the mockery of fools. Remember that the Saints, who always scorned the world and the mundane, have thwarted the world and its maxims.

--St. Padre Pio

QUOTATION: When Praying to God...

You can't give God deadlines.

--St. Padre Pio

QUOTATION: The Souls in Purgatory

The souls in Purgatory pray for us, and their prayers are even more effective than ours, because they are accompanied by their suffering. So, let's pray for them, and let's pray them to pray for us.

--St. Padre Pio

QUOTATION: Humility

True humility of the heart is that felt and lived rather than shown. We must always humble before God, but not with that false humility which brings discouragement, generating dejection and despair. We must have a low opinion of ourselves. We must believe we are inferior to everyone else. We must not put out interests before those of others.

--St. Padre Pio

QUOTATION: Temptation

Don't let temptations frighten you; they are the trials of the souls whom God wants to test when he sees they have the necessary strength to sustain the struggle, thus weaving the crown of glory with their own hands.

--St. Padre Pio

QUOTATION: Contrition

Remember: The sinner who is sorry for his sins, is closer to God than the just man who boasts of his good works.

--St. Padre Pio

QUOTATION: Anxiety

Anxiety is one of the greatest traitors that real virtue and solid devotion can ever have. It pretends to warm us to do good works, but doesn't and we grow cold; it makes us run only to make us trip. One must be careful of this on all occasions particularly at prayer. And to better succeed it would be well to remember that graces and the consolations of prayer are not waters of this earth, but of Heaven, and that therefore all our efforts are not sufficient to make them fall, even though it is necessary to prepare oneself with great diligence, but always humbly and tranquilly; one must keep ones heart turned to Heaven and wait from there the heavenly dew.

--St. Padre Pio

QUOTATION: Losing Heart

Don’t lose heart if it is your lot to work a lot and gather little. If you considered what one soul alone costs Jesus, you would never complain.

--St. Padre Pio

QUOTATION: The Weight of the Cross

The Lord sometimes makes you feel the weight of the cross. Although the weight seems intolerable, you are able to carry it, because the Lord, in His love and mercy extends a hand to you and gives you strength.

--St. Padre Pio

QUOTATION: The Cross

The cross will never oppress you; its weight might cause you to stagger, but its strength will sustain you.

--St. Padre Pio

QUOTATION: Baby Steps

When you are unable to take big steps on the path that leads to God, be content with little steps, patiently waiting until you have the legs to run; or better still, wings to fly. Be content with being, for now, a little bee in a hive, which will soon become a big bee, capable of producing honey.

--St. Padre Pio

QUOTATION: Suffering

I do not love suffering itself; I ask it of God because I desire its fruits: it gives glory to God, saves my brothers in exile, and frees souls from the fires of Purgatory.

--St. Padre Pio

QUOTATION: The Christian Life

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.

-- St. Padre Pio

QUOTATION: Crosses

Our Lord sends the crosses; we do not have to invent them.

--St. Padre Pio

QUOTATION: Closeness to God

The sinner who is ashamed to do evil is closer to God than the upright man who is ashamed to do good.

--Saint Padre Pio