Thought n° 223 Monday 11 August If we have to be patient and bear the faults of others, all the more must we tolerate ourselves. In your daily transgressions humble yourself, humble yourself, always humble yourself. When Jesus sees you prostrated with humility, He will extend his hand and He Himself will draw you to…

Thought n° 222 Sunday 10 August Not one of us deserves anything in this world; it is the Lord who is benevolent towards us and it is his infinite mercy that bestows everything because He forgives everything. Padre Pio 

Thought n° 221 Saturday 9 August True humility of the heart is that felt and lived rather than shown. We must always humble ourselves before God, but not with that false humility which brings discouragement, generating dejection and despair. We must have a low opinion of ourselves. We must believe we are inferior to everyone…

Thought n° 220Friday 8 August 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…

Thought n° 219 Thursday 7 August I am sure you desire to know what the best abjection is, and I tell you it is that which we have not chosen ourselves, or that which is less welcome to us. Or, to explain this better, those towards which we feel no inclination. Padre Pio 

Thought n° 218 Wednesday 6 August You must principally insist on the basis of Christian justice and the foundation of goodness; that is on the virtue of which Jesus explicitly offers himself as a model: humility, interior and exterior humility, but more interior than exterior, more felt than shown, more profound than visible. Padre Pio 

Thought n° 217 Tuesday 5 August Never lie down to sleep without having first examined your conscience on the way you have spent the day and without first turning your thoughts to God. Then offer and consecrate your whole person and that of every Christian, especially my wretched self, to God just as I do…

Thought n° 216 Monday 4 August Nevertheless, there is some difference between the virtue of humility and that of abjection, because humility is the recognition of one’s abjection. Now the highest degree of humility is, not only to recognize one’s abjection, but to love it. This is what I have exhorted you to do. Padre…

Thought n° 215 Sunday 3 August Let us also ask our good Jesus for the humility, trust and faith of our dear saint Clare; let us pray fervently to Jesus like her. Let us abandon ourselves to Him; detach ourselves from this lying world where everything is folly and vanity; everything passes, only God remains…

Thought n° 214 Saturday 2 August Furthermore, I tell you to love your abjection, and loving your abjection consists precisely in this: If you are humble, tranquil, sweet and confident in times of darkness and impotence; that is, if you do not become restless, upset and anxious because of all this, but you gladly (I…