Phrases of Padre Pio: emblematic reflections!

Humility and charity go together. One glorifies and the other sanctifies. Humility and purity are wings that lift us to God and make us almost divine.

Have Jesus Christ in your heart and all the crosses in the world will look like roses.

Time devoted to the glory of God and the well-being of others is never wasted.

The good heart is always strong, it suffers, but it hides its tears, and it consoles itself by sacrificing itself for others and for God.

Everything that comes from God leaves the soul calm even in the face of afflictions and contradictions.

Loving means giving others – especially those in need and suffering – the best we have in ourselves and in ourselves.

Try to conform always and in everything to the will of God in all events, and do not be afraid. This conformity is the sure way to heaven.

One can look for God in books, but he can only be found in prayer. Prayer is the best weapon we have, the key that opens the heart of God.

Never lie down without first having examined your conscience, the way you have spent the day and without first putting your thoughts to God.

God’s mercy will always be greater than your ingratitude.

Let us become saints, in this way, after having lived together on earth, we will be together forever in heaven.

I am not as God made me, yet I feel I would have to make a greater effort to do an act of pride than an act of humility. Because humility is truth, and the truth is that I am nothing, and all the good that is in me is from God.

Prayer makes the distance between man and God disappear.

The evildoer who is ashamed of the evil he has done is closer to God than the Christian who prides himself on doing good.

The true servant of God is one who uses charity towards his neighbor, who is determined to do God’s will at all costs, who lives in deep humility and simplicity.

Holy silence allows us to hear the voice of God more clearly.

I feel so sorry for those who have no faith! I can not understand. How can they be atheists in a world where plants grow, the sun shines, birds sing. They are unimaginative men.