Padre Pio on Resignation to God's Will

Words of Padre Pio

on Resignation to God’s Will

 

“Be comforted with this divine thought; that your spiritual and physical pains are the test of the Divine Will.  All lovers of Jesus must conform themselves always more to this divine and eternal Model.”

“You are suffering, it is true, but with resignation.  Fear not because God is with you.”

“The ardent desire to be in eternal peace is good and holy.  But it is necessary to moderate it by a complete resignation to the Divine Will.  It is better to do the Divine Will on earth than to enjoy heaven.”

“Keep far from you all excessive preoccupation which arises from the trials which the good God wishes to visit upon you.  And if this is not possible put away the thoughts, and in all live resigned to the Divine Will.”

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

“Remember that the devil has only one door by which to enter the soul: the will.”

“The holy gift of prayer is placed in the right hand of the Savior.  And in the measure in which you will be empty of yourself - that is the love of the body and your self-will - and will keep on rooting yourself in holy humility, the Lord will keep on communicating Himself to your heart.

“Obedience is mission: ‘I have come into this world to do the will of my Father, who has sent me.’”

“Pray, hope, and don’t worry!”