55+ Famous Quotes From Padre Pio To Bring Inspiration

Quotes From Padre Pio | Padre Pio, his original name was Francesco Forgione, also called St. Pio of Pietrelcina. He was born May 25, 1887, in Pietrelcina, Italy. He was a famous Italian priest and saint of the Roman Catholic Church.

He consecrated or surrendered himself to Jesus at age 5. At age 15, he joined the Capuchin order and took the name Pio in honor of St. Pius I.

He was drafted into the Italian military in 1915 for medical service during World War I but was shortly discharged because of his poor health.

In this article, we’ll read some great inspirational quotes by him.


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“Today’s society does not pray. That is why it is falling apart.”

– Padre Pio


“Prayer is the best weapon we possess, the key that opens the heart of God.”

– Padre Pio


“Pray, hope and don’t worry. Worry is useless. Our Merciful Lord will listen to your prayer.”

– Padre Pio


“Endeavor to unite the simplicity of children with the prudence of adults.”

– Padre Pio


“Do not be so given to the activity of Martha as to forget the silence of Mary. May the Virgin who so well reconciled the one with the other be your sweet model and inspiration.”

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“Always humble yourself lovingly before God and man, because God speaks to those who are truly humble of heart, and enriches them with His gifts.”

– Padre Pio


“Have patience and persevere in the holy exercise of meditation; be content to begin with small steps till you have legs to run, better still wings to fly. Be content to be obedient, which is never a small thing for a soul which has chosen God for its portion. And be resigned to be, for the present, a little bee in the hive which will soon become a large bee capable of making honey.”

– Padre Pio


“Have courage and do not fear the assaults of the Devil. Remember this forever; it is a healthy sign if the devil shouts and roars around your conscience, since this shows that he is not inside your will.”

– Padre Pio


“When you gossip about a person it means that you have removed the person from your heart. But be aware, when you remove a man from your heart, Jesus also goes away from your heart with that man.”

– Padre Pio


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“Where there is no obedience there is no virtue, where there is no virtue there is no good, where there is no good there is no love, where there is no love, there is no God, and where there is no God there is no Paradise.”

– Padre Pio


“The spirit of God is a spirit of peace, and also in the case of grave sin, it makes us feel tranquil sorrow, humble, confident, and this is due precisely to His mercy. The spirit of the demon, on the contrary, excites, exasperates, and makes us in our sorrow feel something like anger against ourselves, whereas our first charity must be to ourselves, and so if certain thoughts agitate you, this agitation never comes from God, who gives tranquility, being the Spirit of Peace. Such agitation comes from the devil.”

– Padre Pio


“Don’t ever be pleased with yourself because of some goodness that you might discover in yourself, because it all comes to you from God, and to Him must you give the honor and glory.”

– Padre Pio


“Invoke your Guardian Angel who will enlighten you. God gave you your Guardian Angel for this reason. So make use of your Angel’s service.”

– Padre Pio


“Walk the way of the Lord in simplicity; do not torment your spirit. Speak the truth, always the truth.”

– Padre Pio


“You should feel at home with sufferings that it pleases Jesus to send you, since you always have to live with them. Acting thus you think less of being freed from them. Jesus who cannot suffer long to keep you in affliction will come to relieve and comfort you by infusing fresh courage into your soul.”

– Padre Pio


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“Don’t allow the sad sight of human injustice to sadden your soul; someday you will see the unfailing justice of God triumph over it!”

– Padre Pio


“When you are exposed to any trial, be it physical or moral, bodily or spiritual, the best remedy is the thought of him who is our life, and not think of the one without joining to it the thought of the other.”

– Padre Pio


“In the spiritual life, the more you run the less you get tired; moreover, peace, the preclude to eternal joy, will come upon us, and we shall be happy and strong according to the extent that we live in this study of making Jesus live in us, and of mortifying ourselves.”

– Padre Pio


“Every Holy Mass, heard with devotion, produces in our souls marvelous effects, abundant spiritual and material graces which we, ourselves, do not know…It is easier for the earth to exist without the sun than without the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass!”

– Padre Pio


“Those strong and generous in heart do not complain except for a strong reason, and even then it does not affect them intimately.”

– Padre Pio


“If the world could see the beauty of a soul without sin, all sinners, all non-believers would instantly convert (their lives).”

– Padre Pio


“Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.”

– Padre Pio


“The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of the trial and in the exaltation after the combat.”

– Padre Pio


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“Some persons when they are with the good, are good; when they are with the bad they follow evil. This is to have half a conscience; it is to act like children who, in the presence of strangers, abuse the occasion to do things that please their taste, certain that the parents will not reprove” them.”

– Padre Pio


“Temptations, discouragement and unrest are the wares offered by the enemy. Remember this: if the devil makes noise it is a sign that he is still outside and not yet within. That which must terrify us is his peace and concord with the human soul. That which comes from Satan begins with calmness and ends in storm, indifference and apathy.”

– Padre Pio


“God enriches the soul which empties itself of everything.”

– Padre Pio


“Oh, how precious time is! Blessed are those who know how to make good use of it. Oh, if only all could understand how precious time is, undoubtedly everyone would do his best to spend it in a praiseworthy manner!”

– Padre Pio


“In 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.”

– Padre Pio


“Joy, with peace, is the sister of charity. Serve the Lord with laughter.”

– Padre Pio


“In all the free time you have, once you have finished your duties of state, you should kneel down and pray the Rosary. Pray the Rosary before the Blessed Sacrament or before a crucifix.”

– Padre Pio


“It would be easier for the world to exist without the sun than without the Holy Mass.”

– Padre Pio


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“A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.”

– Padre Pio


“How can the mother of Jesus, present at the foot of the Cross on Calvary, who offered her Son as Victim for the salvation of souls, be absent at the mystical Calvary of the altar?”

– Padre Pio


“In the spiritual life he who does not advance goes backward. It happens as with a boat which always must go ahead. If it stands still the wind will blow it back.”

– Padre Pio


“You must speak to Jesus also with the heart, besides the lips; indeed, in certain cases you must speak to him only with the heart.”

– Padre Pio


“We must always have courage, and if some spiritual languor comes upon us, let us run to the feet of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, and let us place ourselves in the midst of the heavenly perfumes, and we will undoubtedly regain our strength.”

– Padre Pio


“Have you not for some time loved the Lord? Do you not love him now? Do you not long to love him forever? Therefore, do not fear! Even conceded that you had committed all the sins of this world, Jesus repeats to you, ‘Many sins are forgiven thee because thou hast loved much!’”

– Padre Pio


“God loves man with an infinite love and when he punishes he does so with reverence, almost fearing to hurt.”

– Padre Pio


“God “absolutely cannot reject the sincere desire to love him.”

– Padre Pio


“My past, O Lord, to your Mercy; my present, to your Love; my future, to your Providence!”

– Padre Pio


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