"If you are to reciprocate [God's love for you] generously, make yourself worthy of him, that is, be like him in his divine perfections that you have already learned about in the Scripture and the Gospels. However, for you to imitate him, my brother, you need to reflect and meditate on his life regularly. continual reflection and meditation will make you esteem his actions, and that will bring forth the desire and motivation for imitation. This is already incorporated into the rules of our order, so let us be faithful to their exact observance, and we will attain perfection.  Primarily you need to focus on the foundation of Christian righteousness and goodness, that is, the virtue our Master and our seraphic father [St. Francis] modeled for us: humility."   -St.  Pio of Pietrelcina