“Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of trials of life, but when they come we weep and ask to be. The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist.”

— Pope Pius X

As quoted in Quotable Saints (2003) by Ronda Chervin, p. 79

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