45 Inspirational Padre Pio Quotes

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. - Padre Pio. Here are 45 Inspirational Padre Pio Quotes.

Padre Pio Quotes

1. 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. - Padre Pio

2. Prayer is the oxygen of the soul. - Padre Pio

3. 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. - Padre Pio

4. Whoever does not meditate, is like someone who never looks in the mirror before going out, doesn’t bother to see if he’s tidy, and may go out dirty without knowing it. The person who meditates and turns his mind to God, who is the mirror of his soul, seeks to know his faults, tries to correct them, moderates his impulses, and puts his conscience in order. - Padre Pio

5. Have patience and persevere in the holy exercise of meditation; be content, to begin with, small steps till you have legs to run, better still wings to fly. Be content to be obedient, which is never a small thing for a soul which has chosen God for its portion. And be resigned to be, for the present, a little bee in the hive which will soon become a large bee capable of making honey. - Padre Pio

6. You complain because the same trials are constantly returning. But look here, what have you to fear? Are you afraid of the divine craftsman who wants to perfect His masterpiece in this way? Would you like to come from the hands of such a magnificent Artist as a mere sketch and no more? - Padre Pio

7. 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. - Padre Pio

8. 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! - Padre Pio

9. 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. - Padre Pio

10. You should feel at home with sufferings that it pleases Jesus to send you since you always have to live with them. Acting thus you think less of being freed from them. Jesus who cannot suffer long to keep you in affliction will come to relieve and comfort you by infusing fresh courage into your soul. - Padre Pio

11. Temptations, discouragement, and unrest are the wares offered by the enemy. Remember this: if the devil makes noise it is a sign that he is still outside and not yet within. That which must terrify us is his peace and concord with the human soul. That which comes from Satan begins with calmness and ends in storm, indifference, and apathy. - Padre Pio

Padre Pio Quotes

12. 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. - Padre Pio

13. 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!- Padre Pio

14. In the spiritual life, the more you run the less you get tired; moreover, peace, the preclude to eternal joy, will come upon us, and we shall be happy and strong according to the extent that we live in this study of making Jesus live in us, and of mortifying ourselves. - Padre Pio

15. Those strong and generous in heart do not complain except for a strong reason, and even then it does not affect them intimately. - Padre Pio

16. 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. - Padre Pio

17. The Rosary is the ‘weapon’ for these times. - Padre Pio

18. Do you not see the Madonna always beside the tabernacle? - Padre Pio

19. If you have the courage to imitate Mary Magdalene in her sins, have the courage to imitate her penance! - Padre Pio

20. Humility and charity are the master chords that all other virtues depend upon. The one is the lowest, the other the highest. The preservation of the entire edifice depends on the foundation and the roof. If the heart keeps itself directed in the exercise of these, no difficulty will be encountered in the others. These are the mothers of virtue, the others follow them as the chicks do their mother. - Padre Pio

21. Keep close to the Catholic Church at all times, for the Church alone can give you true peace, since she alone possesses Jesus, the true Prince of Peace, in the Blessed Sacrament. - Padre Pio

22. Lean on the Cross of Jesus as the Virgin did and you will not be deprived of comfort. Mary was as if paralyzed before her crucified Son, but one cannot say that she was abandoned by him. Rather how much more did she not love him when she suffered and could not even weep? - Padre Pio

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23. 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. - Padre Pio

24. 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.” - Padre Pio

25. 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! - Padre Pio

26. If the world could see the beauty of a soul without sin, all sinners, all non-believers would instantly convert (their lives). - Padre Pio

27. 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! - Padre Pio

28. 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. - Padre Pio

29. God enriches the soul which empties itself of everything. - Padre Pio

30. Some persons when they are with the good, are good; when they are with the bad they follow evil. This is to have half a conscience; it is to act like children who, in the presence of strangers, abuse the occasion to do things that please their taste, certain that the parents will not reprove them. - Padre Pio

31. 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! - Padre Pio

32. 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. - Padre Pio

33. Joy, with peace, is the sister of charity. Serve the Lord with laughter. - Padre Pio

Padre Pio Quotes

34. Remember that it is not feeling of guilt that constitutes sin but the consent to sin. 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. - Padre Pio

35. 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. - Padre Pio

36. 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. - Padre Pio

37. The spirit of God is a spirit of peace, and also in the case of grave sin, it makes us feel tranquil sorrow, humble, confident, and this is due precisely to His mercy. The spirit of the demon, on the contrary, excites, exasperates, and makes us in our sorrow feel something like anger against ourselves, whereas our first charity must be to ourselves, and so if certain thoughts agitate you, this agitation never comes from God, who gives tranquility, being the Spirit of Peace. Such agitation comes from the devil. - Padre Pio

38. 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. - Padre Pio

39. 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. - Padre Pio

40. Walk the way of the Lord in simplicity; do not torment your spirit. Speak the truth, always the truth. - Padre Pio

41. 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. - Padre Pio

42. My past, O Lord, to Your mercy; my present, to Your love; my future to Your providence. - Padre Pio

43. By all means seek solitude but don’t fail to be charitable towards your neighbor. - Padre Pio