Pio of Pietrelcina
Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly.Collection: Patience
The root of all evil is 'I', 'Me' , 'Mine'.Collection: Roots
Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.Collection: Faith
Pray, hope and don't worry. Anxiety doesn't help at all. Our Merciful Lord will listen to your prayer.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Christian
The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you.Collection: Crush
As gifts increase in you, let your humility grow, for you must consider that everything is given to you on loan.Collection: Humility
Go to the Madonna. Love her! Always say the Rosary. Say it well. Say it as often as you can! Be souls of prayer. Never tire of praying, it is what is essential. Prayer shakes the Heart of God, it obtains necessary graces!Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Angel
In books we seek God; in prayer we find him. Prayer is the key which opens God's heart.Collection: Prayer
Do not let your heart become troubled by the sad spectacle of human injustice. Even this has its value in the face of all else. And it is from this that one day you will see the justice of God rising with unfailing triumph.Collection: Heart
Fear not because God is with you.Collection: God Is With You
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.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: Heart
The devil is like a rabid dog tied to a chain; beyond the length of the chain he cannot seize anyone. And you: keep at a distance. If you approach too near, you let yourself be caught. Remember that the devil has only one door by which to enter the soul: the will.Collection: Dog
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!Collection: Spiritual
The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrificing, and with extreme effort.Collection: Beautiful
Some people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the help of the Blessed Mother. Love the Madonna and pray the rosary, for her Rosary is the weapon against the evils of the world today. All graces given by God pass through the Blessed Mother.Collection: Mother
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!Collection: Blessed
Prayer is the best weapon we possess. It is the key that opens the heart of God.Collection: Prayer
Pray, Hope, and Don't WorryCollection: Spiritual
Our Lord sends the crosses; we do not have to invent them.Collection: Lord
Humility and purity are the wings which carry us to God and make us almost divine.Collection: Humility
I feel a great desire to abandon myself with greater trust to the Divine Mercy and to place my hope in God alone.Collection: Desire
In the spiritual life, he who does not advance goes backwards.Collection: Spiritual
The Rosary is THE weapon.Collection: Christian
Joy, with peace, is the sister of charity. Serve the Lord with laughter.Collection: Laughter
It is necessary to be strong, in order to become great: that is our duty. Life is a struggle, which we cannot avoid. We must triumph!Collection: Strong
Stop entertaining those vain fears. Remember it is not feeling which constitutes guilt but the consent to such feelings. Only the free will is capable of good or evil. But when the will sighs under the trial of the tempter and does not will what is presented to it, there is not only no fault but there is virtue.Collection: Faith
Since eternity means happiness for you, what does it matter if some of these passing moments are unpleasant?Collection: Mean
We must empty purgatory with our prayers.Collection: Prayer
The Lord our King will hold the door of His heart open for anyone who wants to enter for an audience at any timeCollection: Kings
The Church is the house of God. It is forbidden for men to enter with bare arms or in shorts. It is forbidden for women to enter in trousers, without a veil on their head, in short clothing, low necklines, sleeveless or immodest dresses.Collection: Men
Why should you worry whether God wants you to reach the heavenly home by way of the desert or by the fields, when by the one as well as by the other one arrives all the same at a Blessed Eternity? Keep far from you excessive preoccupation which arises from the trials which the good God wishes to visit upon you.Collection: Blessed
Why fly like a hen when you can soar like an eagle?Collection: Eagles
Never rise from the table without having given due thanks to the Lord. If we act in this way, we need have no fear of the wretched sin of gluttony.Collection: Saint
The sacred gift of prayer is in the right hand of our Savior, and according to the measure that you empty yourself of yourself, that is of love of your senses and of your own will, and make progress in rooting yourself in holy humility, to that extent the Lord will speak to your heart.Collection: Prayer
In order to console a soul in it's sufferings, point out to it all the good it can still do.Collection: Order
You must concentrate on pleasing God alone, and if He is pleased, you must be pleased.Collection: Pleasing God
May the Mother of Jesus and our Mother, always smile on your spirit, obtaining for it, from her Most Holy Son, every heavenly blessing.Collection: Mother
Time spent in honor of God for the salvation of souls is never badly spent.Collection: Catholic
The Mother of Sorrows is my confidante, my teacher, my counselor, and my powerful advocate.Collection: Mother
Recommend me to the Lord and to the Virgin Mother because I am in extreme need of their help.Collection: Mother
Through the study of books one seeks God; by meditation one finds him.Collection: Book
Pray, hope, don't worry.Collection: Prayer
It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the Holy Mass.Collection: Would Be
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.Collection: Mother