I am not as the Lord made me, yet I feel that I would have to make a greater effort to make an act of pride than an act of humility. Because humility is truth, and the truth is that I am nothing, and everything good that is in me is of God. And often we spoil even the good that God has put in us. When people ask me for something, I do not think of what I can give but of what I do not know how to give and of the many souls who remain thirsty because I have not known how to give them the gift of God.
To think that every moming Jesus grafts Himself into us, permeates us entirely, gives us everything, therefore a branch or a flower of humility should sprout in us. On the other hand, the devil, who cannot graft himself into us as deeply as Jesus, immediately makes shoots of pride germinate in us. This is not to our credit. We must therefore fight and struggle to rise. We will not arrive at the summit without an encounter with God. To meet we must ascend and He must descend. But when we can take no more, then let us pause and be humble and it is in this humility that we will meet God, because He descends into the hearts of the humble. (Padre Pio; Have a good day, 8th August)