{"id":332,"date":"2010-10-26T17:36:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T17:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jkmsolutions.com\/PPPG\/?page_id=332"},"modified":"2015-06-29T18:46:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T18:46:30","slug":"spiritual-maxims-of-saint-pio-of-pietrelcina","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.pppg.org\/?page_id=332","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Maxims of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li> &#8220;Pray, hope and don&#8217;t worry&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;Prayer is the best armor we have, it is the key which opens the heart of God.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;Whoever does not meditate, is like someone who never looks in the  mirror before going out, doesn&#8217;t bother to see if he&#8217;s tidy, and may go  out dirty without knowing it. The person who meditates and turns his  mind to God, who is the mirror of his soul, seeks to know his faults,  tries to correct them, moderates his impulses, and puts his conscience  in order.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> Someone complained to Padre Pio of being excessively distressed by sins  he had committed. Padre Pio replied: &#8220;That which you feel is pride; it  is the demon which inspires you with this sentiment, it is not true  sorrow.&#8221; The penitent replied: &#8220;Father, how can you then distinguish  what comes from the heart and is inspired by Our Lord, and that which  instead is inspired by the devil?&#8221; &#8220;You will distinguish it,&#8221; replied  Padre Pio, &#8220;always by this: 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.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;God enriches the soul which empties itself of everything.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;The habit of asking &#8216;Why&#8217; has ruined the world.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;You must speak to Jesus, not only with your lips, but also with your  heart; actually, on certain occasions, you should speak with only your  heart.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;Humility is truth, truth is humility.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;Sin against charity is like piercing God in the pupil of the eye, what  is more delicate than the pupil of the eye? To sin against charity is  like a sin against nature.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;Charity is the measure by which Our Lord judges all things.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;Let us climb Calvary without getting tired, carrying our Cross and be  certain that the climb will lead us to the beatific vision of our dear  Savior.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;The sacred gift of prayer is in the right hand of our Savior, and  according to the measure that you empty yourself of yourself, that is if  love of your senses and of your own will, and make progress in rooting  yourself in holy humility, to that extent the Lord will speak to your  heart.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;Bear in mind that the more the enemy assaults you, the closer God is to  your soul. Think about, and penetrate this great and comforting truth.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;Even if you were to commit all the sins in the world, Jesus would  repeat to you: &#8220;Many of your sins are forgiven because you have loved  much.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;Once I take on a soul, I also take on the entire family as my spiritual children.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I will ask the Lord to let me remain at the Threshold  of Paradise and I will not enter until the last of my spirtual children  has entered&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pray, hope and don&#8217;t worry&#8221; &#8220;Prayer is the best armor we have, it is the key which opens the heart of God.&#8221; &#8220;Whoever does not meditate, is like someone who never looks in the mirror before going out, doesn&#8217;t bother to see if he&#8217;s tidy, and may go out dirty without knowing it. 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