Pius XI Quotes

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

Dear God, May all the tears I cry, and all the tears I have not cried but hold within, pour forth into Your hands. Please take each painful thought and unhealed wound, and send angels here to me. I long for peace. Amen.

Prayer is doubts destroyer, ruin's remedy, the antidote to all anxieties.

Oh, how wretched should I be at this moment, if I had not made my peace with God.

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

When we believe that God hears us, it is but natural that we should be eager to hear Him. Only from Him can come the word which can speak peace to troubled spirits; the voices of men are feeble in such a case, a plaster far too narrow for the sore; but God's voice is power, He speaks and it is done, and hence when we hear Him our distress is ended.

Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.

In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.

One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.

Prayer can solve more problems, alleviate more suffering, prevent more transgression, and bring about greater peace and contentment in the human soul than can be obtained in any other way.

Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.

When you take your troubles to God, you may have them but they don't have you.

In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.

Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter; And, while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the good hereafter.

Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.

I know nothing that can so comfort the soul, so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow, so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.

We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand.

If you have an anxiety lay it down before The Lord

Failure is nothing but the kiss of Jesus.

Excess of trouble may, for a time, distract and overwhelm the soul. Our Lord himself seems to have experienced somewhat of this. Our prayers, perhaps, are never more acceptable, than when they are offered in broken accents, in sighs, and groans.

Heaven is God's answer to any suffering you may face.

The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain ....Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying, 'You are accepted.'

Let is walk ... joyously, dear souls, among the difficulties of this passing life ... These pains will have an end when our life ends, after which there will be only joy, only contentment, only eternal consolation.