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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My favorite definition of humility came from my philosophy 101 professor in college (who was religious). He defined it as seeing God as God, and ourselves as human. That meant, he said, that we weren't to think about ourselves as either greater or less than we are, but to try and rightly assess ourselves, our flaws but also our strengths.

Relatedly, in my New Testament Studies class, we talked about the fact that shame or self-revulsion can be, in it's own way, an inverted form of pride. We think "I [b]ought[/b] to be so much better than I am" and blame ourselves for not being so. But the reality is that we're human (again, not God), and often could not be better than we are. Setting an impossibly high standard for ourselves and beating ourselves up for not living up to it isn't humility.

So I think of humility as recognizing my own limits, even celebrating them. Humility is doing what I can, but leaving what I can't to God. Humility is being willing to own up to my mistakes and try to turn away from my flaws, but understanding that I can also only control so much and God is at work.

In so many ways, humility is trying to make much less of me (positively or negatively) and MUCH more of God. Or to quote John about Jesus, "He must increase, but I must decrease."[/quote]

You sound very proud of your. humility[/quote]

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