How do I know if I am humble?

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Humility is so important being a disciple of Christ. Question is how do I know, how do I judge my own humility? Thoughts?:confused:
 
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Humility is so important being a disciple of Christ. Question is how do I know, how do I judge my own humility? Thoughts?:confused:
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They once gave me a button that said “HUMBLE” on it. But when I tried to wear it they took it away!:rotfl:
 
I don’t think we need to know exactly how humble we are on a continuum or scale. I know, that is an irritating answer. 🙂 I find it most helpful when I read in a devotional writing examples of concrete ways of acting on pride so I can avoid them and concrete examples of what to do to practice humility, so I can practice them.
 
Usually those who practise a great degree of humility are usually unaware that they are.The humble always think themselves proud and seek to improve themselves in the eyes of God.You would think any man who labels himself humble seeks the approval of vain glory and human respect(is content,hence lukewarm),rather than being motivated by God as his objective;beginning and his end.

Humility is not the greatest of virtues,but a concomitant to all virtues.It is the root of all virtues,without humility all other virtues would be tainted.Do remember that humility is not being someone’s “sugar daddy,” or being treated like dirt,etc,all it is is accepting one’s worth in the eyes of God.We are but mere dust in the wind.

There was a certain woman in History who had a great privilege bestowed upon her by her master.She did not say "I’m just a piece of grass?"She answered "behold the handmaid of the Lord,be it done unto me according to they word."I.e.,I accept this honour knowing all goodness comes from God.
 
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Humility is so important being a disciple of Christ. Question is how do I know, how do I judge my own humility? Thoughts?:confused:
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You wouldn’t ask, you would just be humble. Humility isn’t a part of our character that we can actually judge, it is a attribute that others will notice in us but we will never truly notice in ourselves.
 
**A humble person would never worry about this question…humility is all that is needed and this is one quality that one can only strive for. The moment one worries about it - has lost humility and is struggling with pride.

Read and re-read last Sunday’s second reading:
Corinthians 12:7-10. **
 
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Humility is so important being a disciple of Christ. Question is how do I know, how do I judge my own humility? Thoughts?:confused:
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One of the features of humility is that you worry most about how you can be of service to other people, rather than worrying about yourself, other than to take care of yourself so that you can be of more excellent service to others. 😉
 
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Humility is so important being a disciple of Christ. Question is how do I know, how do I judge my own humility? Thoughts?:confused:
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Modern Catholic Dictionary:

HUMILITY. The moral virtue that keeps a person from reaching beyond himself. It is the virtue that restrains the unruly desire for personal greatness and leads people to an orderly love of themselves based on a true appreciation of their position with respect to God and their neighbors. Religious humility recognizes one’s total dependence on God; moral humility recognizes one’s creaturely equality with others. Yet humility is not only opposed to pride; it is also opposed to immoderate self-abjection, which would fail to recognize God’s gifts and use them according to his will. (Etym. Latin humilitas, abasement, humility, from humus, ground.)
 
jmcrae said:
One of the features of humility is that you worry most about how you can be of service to other people, rather than worrying about yourself, other than to take care of yourself so that you can be of more excellent service to others. 😉
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Jmcrae, I appreciate your answer. The article (it’s short) below references that if we have anxiety we have to assess whether this is occurring because we lack humility. So somehow I have to make a judgment on my own humility. How would you view and answer my question in this context?

Thank you.

catholic.net/index.php?option=dedestaca&id=1280
 
Give me all your money.

Hahahhahaa:)

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I think your humble man.your literally worried about not being humble enough.
 
Pride is the opposing vice to the virtue of humility. It is probably easier to see yourself when you are being prideful than to know when you are being humble.

Pride is the first sin. Humility is called the mother of all virtues, because it gives birth to all the other virtues, as all sin begins with pride.

The saints tell us that pride is insidious and they battled it constantly. It is sneaky and you can be thinking prideful thoughts without being aware of it. Grace will reveal to the soul when it is being prideful.

The desire to be seen in a favorable light by others and to exalt oneself in thoughts or to attract applause and praise is pride. It one does not desire this kind of attention, there is a degree of humility at work.
 
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Humility is so important being a disciple of Christ. Question is how do I know, how do I judge my own humility? Thoughts?:confused:
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When you can accept both praise and criticism honestly and without dissembling :rolleyes:
 
Seira said:
The humble one would faint at the thread starter’s name Porknpie. 😉
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**A truly humble person would not post this. It was demeaning and a humble person would not respond with these words.

Please take the OP very seriously - and give the OP spirit led responses…not mind led ones.

OP - this is an honest question from one that seeks to KNOW - God bless your desire to be humble. **
 
Porknpie said:
Jmcrae, I appreciate your answer. The article (it’s short) below references that if we have anxiety we have to assess whether this is occurring because we lack humility. So somehow I have to make a judgment on my own humility. How would you view and answer my question in this context?

Thank you.

catholic.net/index.php?option=dedestaca&id=1280
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Anxiety is a product of pride, because it is centered around the self. You will find that your anxiety goes away when you stop thinking about yourself, and start thinking about how you can best be of service to others, and putting their needs ahead of your own, including your own need to be humble.

Self-analysis is also a product of pride, and a producer of anxiety, because again it is focused on the self.

Humble people don’t judge themselves - that’s the whole point. You shouldn’t be thinking about yourself at all, other than to discern whether you are being of most excellent service to others - “did I do the best job I could of washing the dishes for my mother?” for example - but without self-obsession - for example, you might say, “Oh, I could have soaked the dishes longer to get the eggs off” but you don’t dwell on it - you just make a mental note to yourself that next time, you need to soak the breakfast dishes a little longer, and then you forget about it because your child needs you to go out and play catch in the yard, and your focus is then on how best to be of service to your child; you don’t think about yourself.
 
I can’t verify the authenicity of this, but I liked it nonetheless.

*Mother Teresa’s Humility List
  1. Speak as little as possible about yourself.
  2. Keep busy with your own affairs and not those of others.
  3. Avoid curiosity.
  4. Do not interfere in the affairs of others.
  5. Accept small irritations with good humor.
  6. Do not dwell on the faults of others.
  7. Accept censures even if unmerited.
  8. Give in to the will of others.
  9. Accept insults and injuries.
  10. Accept contempt, being forgotten and disregarded.
  11. Be courteous and delicate even when provoked by someone.
  12. Do not seek to be admired and loved.
  13. Do not protect yourself behind your own dignity.
  14. Give in, in discussions, even when you are right.
  15. Choose always the more difficult task.*
 
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