Pio of Pietrelcina Quotes About Prayer
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!
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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.
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Pray, hope and don't worry. Anxiety doesn't help at all. Our Merciful Lord will listen to your prayer.
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Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.
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It is true that God's power triumphs over everything, but humble and suffering prayer prevails over God Himself.
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Prayer is the best weapon we possess. It is the key that opens the heart of God.
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Pray, hope, don't worry.
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Ahead! Courage! In the spiritual life he who does not advance goes backward. It happens as with a boat which always must go ahead. If it stands still the wind will blow it back.
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We must empty purgatory with our prayers.
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In books we seek God; in prayer we find him. Prayer is the key which opens God's heart.
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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.
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Pio of Pietrelcina Quotes About Sacrifice
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!
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The greatest act of faith is that which rises to your lips in total darkness together with the sacrifices, sufferings and wholehearted efforts of a determined will to do good. This act of faith strikes through the darkness of your soul like lightening. In the midst of tempest it raises you up and leads you to God.
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The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrificing, and with extreme effort.
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Pio of Pietrelcina Quotes About Saints
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.
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It is true that God's power triumphs over everything, but humble and suffering prayer prevails over God Himself.
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Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry
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The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrificing, and with extreme effort.
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In order to console a soul in it's sufferings, point out to it all the good it can still do.
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The Rosary is THE weapon.
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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.
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He who does not meditate acts as one who never looks into the mirror and so does not bother to put himself in order, since he can be dirty without knowing it. The person who meditates and turns his thoughts to God who is the mirror of the soul, seeks to know his defects and tries to correct them, moderates himself in his impulses and puts his conscience in order.
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Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly.
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Joy, with peace, is the sister of charity. Serve the Lord with laughter.
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Pio of Pietrelcina Quotes About Sin
Remember that God is within us when we are in a state of grace and outside of us when we are in a state of sin; but His angel never abandons us. . . He is our most sincere and faithful
friend even when we sadden him with our bad behavior.
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If you have the courage to imitate Mary Magdalene in her sins, have the courage to imitate her penance!
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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.
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Pio of Pietrelcina Quotes About Soul
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!
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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.
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Peace is the simplicity of heart, serenity of mind, tranquility of soul, the bond of love.
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Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.
Pio of Pietrelcina
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!
Pio of Pietrelcina
Jesus who cannot suffer long to keep you in affliction will come to relieve and comfort you by infusing fresh courage into your soul.
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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.
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Time spent in honor of God for the salvation of souls is never badly spent.
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The greatest act of faith is that which rises to your lips in total darkness together with the sacrifices, sufferings and wholehearted efforts of a determined will to do good. This act of faith strikes through the darkness of your soul like lightening. In the midst of tempest it raises you up and leads you to God.
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Imagine Jesus crucified in your arms and on your chest, and say a hundred times as you kiss His chest, "This is my hope, the living source of my happiness; this is the heart of my soul;
nothing will ever separate me from His love.
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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.
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In order to console a soul in it's sufferings, point out to it all the good it can still do.
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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.
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If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send me temptations."
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He who does not meditate acts as one who never looks into the mirror and so does not bother to put himself in order, since he can be dirty without knowing it. The person who meditates and turns his thoughts to God who is the mirror of the soul, seeks to know his defects and tries to correct them, moderates himself in his impulses and puts his conscience in order.
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Jesus himself wants my sufferings; He needs them for souls.
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Stay with me, Lord, for as poor as my soul is I want it to be a place of consolation for You. . .
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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.
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God commands us to love Him, not as much as He deserves, because He knows our capabilities and therefore He does not ask us to do what we cannot do. But He asks us to love Him according to
our strength, with all our soul, all our mind, and all our heart.
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The harm that comes to souls from the lack of reading holy books makes me shudder... What power spiritual reading has to lead to a change of course, and to make even worldly people enter into the way of perfection.
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Pio of Pietrelcina Quotes About Suffering
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.
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Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering.
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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.
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The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you.
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Jesus who cannot suffer long to keep you in affliction will come to relieve and comfort you by infusing fresh courage into your soul.
Pio of Pietrelcina
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.
Pio of Pietrelcina
It is true that God's power triumphs over everything, but humble and suffering prayer prevails over God Himself.
Pio of Pietrelcina
The greatest act of faith is that which rises to your lips in total darkness together with the sacrifices, sufferings and wholehearted efforts of a determined will to do good. This act of faith strikes through the darkness of your soul like lightening. In the midst of tempest it raises you up and leads you to God.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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In order to console a soul in it's sufferings, point out to it all the good it can still do.
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Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven.
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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.
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If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send me temptations."
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On this earth everyone has his cross. But we must act in such a way that we be not the bad, but good thief.
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I remind you that I belong with great ardor to everyone and for this reason I am suffering immensely for all.
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Jesus himself wants my sufferings; He needs them for souls.
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Pio of Pietrelcina Quotes About Temptation
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.
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Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven.
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If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send me temptations."
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Pio of Pietrelcina Quotes About Virgin Mary
Always stay close to this Heavenly Mother, because she is the sea to be crossed to reach the shores of Eternal Splendour.
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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.
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May the Mother of Jesus and our Mother, always smile on your spirit, obtaining for it, from her Most Holy Son, every heavenly blessing.
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