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.
Pio of PietrelcinaSome people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the help of the Blessed Mother.
Pio of PietrelcinaWe must hide our tears from the One who sends them, from the One who has shed tears Himself and continues to shed them every day because of mans' ingratitude.
Pio of PietrelcinaLove Our Lady and make her loved; always recite the Rosary and recite it as often as possible.
Pio of PietrelcinaThe most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrificing, and with extreme effort.
Pio of PietrelcinaWhy 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.
Pio of Pietrelcina