
Humility: The Greatest Good
IN Paradise there are many Saints who never gave alms on earth: their poverty justified them. There are many Saints who never mortified their bodies
IN Paradise there are many Saints who never gave alms on earth: their poverty justified them. There are many Saints who never mortified their bodies
Humility is not a sickly virtue, timid and feeble, as some imagine; on the contrary, it is strong, magnanimous, generous, and constant, because it is
If we wish to discern what belongs to God and that which is our own, it is sufficient for us to reflect that by rendering to God all that is His, nothing is left to ourselves but nothingness, so that we can truly say with the Prophet: “I am brought to nothing.”
Truly, no one cares to be thought proud, for even according to worldly ideas, the greatest blame that one can give to a man is to say that he is proud. And yet few try to avoid the very thing they would least desire to be accused of by others. If we feel inward satisfaction when we are given credit for a humility which we do not possess,
Read the lives of the Saints, and consider whose life your own most resembles: what degree of sanctity do you possess? If you were to
God resists the proud, because the proud oppose Him; but He dispenses His graces liberally to the humble, because they live in subjection to His
The proof of true humility is patience: neither meekness of speech, nor humbleness of bearing, nor the giving up of oneself to lowly works, is
It may be said that humility is the most efficacious remedy for all evil and a most potent antidote to preserve the soul from that
The true reason for which God bestows so many graces upon the humble is this, that the humble are faithful to these graces and make
According to the doctrine of St. Thomas the first act of humility consists in subjecting ourselves to God, and the next is to subject –
According to the doctrine of St. Thomas the first act of humility consists in subjecting ourselves to God, and the next is to subject –
The proof of true humility is patience: neither meekness of speech, nor humbleness of bearing, nor the giving up of oneself to lowly works, is
“No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility.” -St. Augustine The TAN Books “Book of the Year” is a favorite entitled Humility of
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