Pius XI Quotes

I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.

The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.

Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.

Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.

Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.

Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin.

Prayer can never be in excess.

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God.

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.

It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.

If our age in its pride laughs at and rejects Our Lady's Rosary, a countless legion of the most saintly men of every age and of every condition have not only held it most dear and have most piously recited it but have also used it at all times as a most powerful weapon to overcome the devil, to preserve the purity of their lives, to acquire virtue more zealously, in a word, to promote peace among men.

I pray daily... for peace.

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we're to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.

Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.

My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray.

He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.

I'm saying my rosary every day.

The key is - I'll say the key - number one, I pray every day.