Be totally resigned in the hands of our Lord, giving Him your remaining years, and begging Him always, to fill them with preparations for life which is pleasing to Him. Don’t worry about useless promises of tranquillity, enjoyment or merits, but present your hearts to your divine Spouse, totally emptying it of all other affections, except his chaste love. And beseech Him to fill it purely and simply with actions, desires and a will which pertain to his love, so that your hearts, like mother of pearl, do not conceive anything, except with the dew of Heaven, and not with the waters of the world. (Padre Pio; Letters III, p. 572 - 573)

Be totally resigned in the hands of our Lord, giving Him your remaining years, and begging Him always, to fill them with preparations for life which is pleasing to Him. Don’t worry about useless promises of tranquillity, enjoyment or merits, but present your hearts to your divine Spouse, totally emp

Be totally resigned in the hands of our Lord, giving Him your remaining years, and begging Him always, to fill them with preparations for life which is pleasing to Him. Don’t worry about useless promises of tranquillity, enjoyment or merits, but present your hearts to your divine Spouse, totally emptying it of all other affections, except his chaste love. And beseech Him to fill it purely and simply with actions, desires and a will which pertain to his love, so that your hearts, like mother of pearl, do not conceive anything, except with the dew of Heaven, and not with the waters of the world. (Padre Pio; Letters III, p. 572 - 573)

I beseech you, for the love of God, do not fear God, because He dosen’t want to do you any harm at all. Love Him a great deal because He wants to do you a great deal of good. Walk simply, with certainty in you resolutions, and reject the reflections of spirit concerning your suffering, treating them as cruel temptations. (Padre Pio; Letters III, p. 573)

I beseech you, for the love of God, do not fear God, because He dosen’t want to do you any harm at all. Love Him a great deal because He wants to do you a great deal of good. Walk simply, with certainty in you resolutions, and reject the reflections of spirit concerning your suffering, treating them

I beseech you, for the love of God, do not fear God, because He dosen’t want to do you any harm at all. Love Him a great deal because He wants to do you a great deal of good. Walk simply, with certainty in you resolutions, and reject the reflections of spirit concerning your suffering, treating them as cruel temptations. (Padre Pio; Letters III, p. 573)

I see that all the seasons of the year can be found in your souls. Sometimes you feel the winter of much sterility, distractions, restlessness and boredom; sometimes the dews of the month of May with the perfume of holy little flowers [penance]; sometimes the heat of the desire to please our divine Spouse. Nothing remains but the autumn in which you don’t see much fruit, but it often happens that when the grain is threshed and the grapes crushed, there is a bigger harvest than the harvesting promised. (Padre Pio; Letters III, p. 592)

I see that all the seasons of the year can be found in your souls. Sometimes you feel the winter of much sterility, distractions, restlessness and boredom; sometimes the dews of the month of May with the perfume of holy little flowers [penance]; sometimes the heat of the desire to please our divine

I see that all the seasons of the year can be found in your souls. Sometimes you feel the winter of much sterility, distractions, restlessness and boredom; sometimes the dews of the month of May with the perfume of holy little flowers [penance]; sometimes the heat of the desire to please our divine Spouse. Nothing remains but the autumn in which you don’t see much fruit, but it often happens that when the grain is threshed and the grapes crushed, there is a bigger harvest than the harvesting promised. (Padre Pio; Letters III, p. 592)

Not only do I find nothing wrong in your returning the visits to your acquaintances, but I consider it to be an absolute duty. Mercy is useful in all situations and is adaptable to everything in accordance with the circumstances, except when it involves sin. By all means return the visits and you will also have the reward of obedience and the Lord’s blessing. (Padre Pio; Letters III, p. 431)

Not only do I find nothing wrong in your returning the visits to your acquaintances, but I consider it to be an absolute duty. Mercy is useful in all situations and is adaptable to everything in accordance with the circumstances, except when it involves sin. By all means return the visits and you wi

Not only do I find nothing wrong in your returning the visits to your acquaintances, but I consider it to be an absolute duty. Mercy is useful in all situations and is adaptable to everything in accordance with the circumstances, except when it involves sin. By all means return the visits and you will also have the reward of obedience and the Lord’s blessing. (Padre Pio; Letters III, p. 431)
Make Christian use of your money and savings and then so much misery will disappear and so many suffering bodies and afflicted beings will find relief and comfort. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 9 November)
Be like little spiritual bees, bringing nothing into their hives but honey and wax. May your homes be full of sweetness, peace, agreement, humility and piety as regards conversation. (Padre Pio; Letters III, p. 567; Have a good day, 8 November)

You too, doctors, you came to the world as I did with a mission to accomplish. Take note: I speak to you of duties when everyone talks about rights… You have the mission of curing the sick, but if you do not bring love to the bedside of the patient, I do not think the medicine will be of much use… Love cannot do without words. How can you express it if not with words that relieve the patient spiritually? Bring God to the patient. He will be worth more than any other cure. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 7 November)

You too, doctors, you came to the world as I did with a mission to accomplish. Take note: I speak to you of duties when everyone talks about rights… You have the mission of curing the sick, but if you do not bring love to the bedside of the patient, I do not think the medicine will be of much use… L

You too, doctors, you came to the world as I did with a mission to accomplish. Take note: I speak to you of duties when everyone talks about rights… You have the mission of curing the sick, but if you do not bring love to the bedside of the patient, I do not think the medicine will be of much use… Love cannot do without words. How can you express it if not with words that relieve the patient spiritually? Bring God to the patient. He will be worth more than any other cure. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 7 November)
Reflect on what you write, because the Lord will ask you to account for it. Be careful, journalist! May the Lord grant you the satisfactions you desire in your career. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 6 November)
Always and in everything let there be more uprightness of intention, more exactitude, more punctuality, more generosity in serving the Lord and then you will be as the Lord wants you. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 5 November)
In order to aim at perfection it is necessary to do everything possible to please God, to try to avoid even the smallest fault, and to do everything else with more generosity. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 4 November)

One day a spiritual son asked him: Father, how can I increase my love? Reply: By doing your duty with exactitude an upright intentions and observing the law of the Lord. If you do this with constancy and perseverance, your love will grow. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 3 November)

One day a spiritual son asked him: Father, how can I increase my love? Reply: By doing your duty with exactitude an upright intentions and observing the law of the Lord. If you do this with constancy and perseverance, your love will grow. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 3 November)

One day a spiritual son asked him: Father, how can I increase my love? Reply: By doing your duty with exactitude an upright intentions and observing the law of the Lord. If you do this with constancy and perseverance, your love will grow. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 3 November)
My children, to remain like this, unable to do my duty, is useless, it is better that I die! (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 2 November)
Duty before everything else, even before what is holy. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 1 November)

Patience is more perfect when it is less mixed up with worries and disturbances. If the good God wants to prolong the time of trial, do not complain or try to investigate the reason, but remember the following: That the children of Israel travelled for forty years in the desert before setting foot in the Promised Land. (Padre Pio, Letters III, p. 541)

Patience is more perfect when it is less mixed up with worries and disturbances. If the good God wants to prolong the time of trial, do not complain or try to investigate the reason, but remember the following: That the children of Israel travelled for forty years in the desert before setting foot i

Patience is more perfect when it is less mixed up with worries and disturbances. If the good God wants to prolong the time of trial, do not complain or try to investigate the reason, but remember the following: That the children of Israel travelled for forty years in the desert before setting foot in the Promised Land. (Padre Pio, Letters III, p. 541)

The desire to be in eternal peace is good and holy, but you must moderate this with complete resignation to the divine will. It is better to do the divine will on earth, than to enjoy Paradise. To suffer and not to die, was Saint Teresa’s motto. Purgatory is sweet when one suffers for love of God. (Padre Pio, Letters III, p. 553)

The desire to be in eternal peace is good and holy, but you must moderate this with complete resignation to the divine will. It is better to do the divine will on earth, than to enjoy Paradise. To suffer and not to die, was Saint Teresa’s motto. Purgatory is sweet when one suffers for love of God. (

The desire to be in eternal peace is good and holy, but you must moderate this with complete resignation to the divine will. It is better to do the divine will on earth, than to enjoy Paradise. To suffer and not to die, was Saint Teresa’s motto. Purgatory is sweet when one suffers for love of God. (Padre Pio, Letters III, p. 553)
The struggle we have prior to good work we intend to do is like the antiphon that precedes the solemn psalm to be sung. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 29th October)

The Spirit of God is a spirit of peace and even in the most serious faults He makes us feel a sorrow that is tranquil, humble, and confident and this is precisely because of his mercy. The spirit of the devil, instead, excites, exasperates and makes us feel, in that very sorrow, anger against ourselves, whereas we should on the contrary be charitable with ourselves first and foremost. Therefore if any thought agitates you, this agitation never comes from God, who gives you peace, being the Spirit of Peace, but from the devil. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 27th October)

The Spirit of God is a spirit of peace and even in the most serious faults He makes us feel a sorrow that is tranquil, humble, and confident and this is precisely because of his mercy. The spirit of the devil, instead, excites, exasperates and makes us feel, in that very sorrow, anger against oursel

The Spirit of God is a spirit of peace and even in the most serious faults He makes us feel a sorrow that is tranquil, humble, and confident and this is precisely because of his mercy. The spirit of the devil, instead, excites, exasperates and makes us feel, in that very sorrow, anger against ourselves, whereas we should on the contrary be charitable with ourselves first and foremost. Therefore if any thought agitates you, this agitation never comes from God, who gives you peace, being the Spirit of Peace, but from the devil. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 27th October)
Don't lose heart if it is your lot to work a lot and gather little. If you considered what one soul alone costs Jesus, you would never complain. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 26th October)
Let us keep well in mind what the divine Master said: in our patience we will possess our souls. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 25th October)

Why should you worry if Jesus wants to make you reach the heavenly homeland through deserts or fields, when we get to blessed eternity anyway either by one or the other? Cast aside all excessive preoccupations that drive from the trials the good God sends you; and if this is not possible, do not think about it and be resigned in everything to the Divine will. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 24th October)

Why should you worry if Jesus wants to make you reach the heavenly homeland through deserts or fields, when we get to blessed eternity anyway either by one or the other? Cast aside all excessive preoccupations that drive from the trials the good God sends you; and if this is not possible, do not thi

Why should you worry if Jesus wants to make you reach the heavenly homeland through deserts or fields, when we get to blessed eternity anyway either by one or the other? Cast aside all excessive preoccupations that drive from the trials the good God sends you; and if this is not possible, do not think about it and be resigned in everything to the Divine will. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 24th October)

Anxiety is one of the greatest traitors that real virtue and solid devotion can ever have. It pretends to warm us to do good works, but doesn’t and we grow cold; it makes us run only to make us trip. One must be careful of this on all occasions particularly at prayer. And to better succeed it would be well to remember that graces and the consolations of prayer are not waters of this earth, but of Heaven, and that therefore all our efforts are not sufficient to make them fall, even though it is necessary to prepare oneself with great diligence, but always humbly and tranquilly; one must keep one’s heart turned to Heaven and wait from there the heavenly dew. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 23th October)

Anxiety is one of the greatest traitors that real virtue and solid devotion can ever have. It pretends to warm us to do good works, but doesn’t and we grow cold; it makes us run only to make us trip. One must be careful of this on all occasions particularly at prayer. And to better succeed it would

Anxiety is one of the greatest traitors that real virtue and solid devotion can ever have. It pretends to warm us to do good works, but doesn’t and we grow cold; it makes us run only to make us trip. One must be careful of this on all occasions particularly at prayer. And to better succeed it would be well to remember that graces and the consolations of prayer are not waters of this earth, but of Heaven, and that therefore all our efforts are not sufficient to make them fall, even though it is necessary to prepare oneself with great diligence, but always humbly and tranquilly; one must keep one’s heart turned to Heaven and wait from there the heavenly dew. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 23th October)

You should not be discouraged, because if there is in the soul a continual effort to improve, the Lord will finally reward you by suddenly making all the virtues blossom in you as in a garden full of flowers. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 20th October)

You should not be discouraged, because if there is in the soul a continual effort to improve, the Lord will finally reward you by suddenly making all the virtues blossom in you as in a garden full of flowers. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 20th October)

You should not be discouraged, because if there is in the soul a continual effort to improve, the Lord will finally reward you by suddenly making all the virtues blossom in you as in a garden full of flowers. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 20th October)

Always be happily at peace with your conscience, reflecting that you are in the service of an infinitely good Father, who comes down to his creature out of sheer goodness, to raise and transform him in Him his Creator. And dispel sadness, because this enters in the hearts of those who are attached to the things of this world. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 19th October)

Always be happily at peace with your conscience, reflecting that you are in the service of an infinitely good Father, who comes down to his creature out of sheer goodness, to raise and transform him in Him his Creator. And dispel sadness, because this enters in the hearts of those who are attached t

Always be happily at peace with your conscience, reflecting that you are in the service of an infinitely good Father, who comes down to his creature out of sheer goodness, to raise and transform him in Him his Creator. And dispel sadness, because this enters in the hearts of those who are attached to the things of this world. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 19th October)

Nor should you become confused, trying to understand whether you consented or not. Do everything with an upright intention; this uprightness which must always be present in your actions, and whenever you valiantly and generously fight the evil tricks of the evil spirit. (Padre Pio, Letters III, p. 626)

Nor should you become confused, trying to understand whether you consented or not. Do everything with an upright intention; this uprightness which must always be present in your actions, and whenever you valiantly and generously fight the evil tricks of the evil spirit. (Padre Pio, Letters III, p. 6

Nor should you become confused, trying to understand whether you consented or not. Do everything with an upright intention; this uprightness which must always be present in your actions, and whenever you valiantly and generously fight the evil tricks of the evil spirit. (Padre Pio, Letters III, p. 626)