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.
Pio of PietrelcinaI feel a great desire to abandon myself with greater trust to the Divine Mercy and to place my hope in God alone.
Pio of PietrelcinaAlways stay close to this Heavenly Mother, because she is the sea to be crossed to reach the shores of Eternal Splendour.
Pio of PietrelcinaJesus 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 PietrelcinaIn 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.
Pio of Pietrelcina