You must concentrate on pleasing God alone, and if He is pleased, you must be pleased.
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 PietrelcinaThe Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you.
Pio of PietrelcinaThe 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.
Pio of Pietrelcina