Padre Pio Blog

✝ “Always be faithful to God in observing the promises you made Him, and pay no attention to the mocking of the foolish. Know that the saints were always mocked by the world and the worldly, but even so they placed the world and its maxims under their feet.” – Padre Pio

✝ “Oh God! Let yourself always be heard, more and more, by my poor heart, and accomplish in me the work you have begun. I hear an interior voice which assiduously says to me: Sanctify yourself and others. Well, my dearest, I want to do this, but I don’t know where to begin. Help me, […]

✝ “Let us become saints so that having been together on earth, we may be together in Heaven.” – Padre Pio

✝ “We should make a great effort to become holy, and render great service to God and our neighbour.” – Padre Pio

✝ “Have you ever seen a field of fully ripened grain? You will see that some ears are tall and vigorous; while others are bent to the ground. Try to take the tall one, the most vain you will see that it is empty; if instead you take the low ones, the most humble, these […]

✝ “Science, my son, for all its greatness is nevertheless a small thing; and less than nothing compared to the formidable mystery of the Divinity. You must take another road. Cleanse your heart of every earthly passion, humble yourself in the dust and pray! In this way you will certainly find God, who will give […]

✝ “I confess in the first place that for me it is a great misfortune to be unable to express and pour out this ever-active volcano which burns me up and which Jesus has placed in this very small heart of mine. It can all be summed up as follows: I am consumed by love […]

✝ “Do the penance of remembering, with sorrow, your offences committed against God; the penance of being constantly good, the penance of fighting against your defects.”