Daily Reflections
with Padre Pio
"You tell me [that] you are afraid of falling into pride. I
myself cannot see how a person can become proud
on account of the gifts he recognizes in himself. It
seems to me that the richer he sees himself to be, the
more reason he has to humble himself before the
Lord, for the Lord's gifts increase and he can never
fully repay the giver of all good things. As for you,
what have you in particular to be proud of? What
have you that you did not receive? If then you
received all, why do you boast as if it were your own?

Whenever the tempter wants you to be puffed up with
pride, say to yourself: all that is good in me I have
received from God on loan, and I should be a fool to
boast of what is not mine."

--Jaunary 30, 1915 letter to Raffaelina Cerase