Humility question

[snowpea]

Is humility for our own benefit even worth thinking about?

For example, If I have a job where I am overlooked or if my parents have never treated me well and I continue to love them, if someone or something has “done me wrong”, or used a weapon to hurt me and I have turned the other cheek and none of it involves God in my consciousness but I still bear it without an outer reaction and quiet acceptance is that a penance?

Is that humility if it isn’t exactly in God’s name?

I have asked this before but still am not clear on it.

If I try to be like Jesus even tho I am not defending my faith is that humility?

I think the quote below is beautiful

I appreciate it being posted

Thank you

Rather then answering this question, I’ll let someone smarter then me do it:

Quote:
‘If humble souls are contradicted, they remain calm; if they are calumniated, they suffer with patience; if they are little esteemed, neglected, or forgotten, they consider that their due; if they are weighed down with occupations, they perform them cheerfully.’
–St. Vincent de Paul
whitelilyoftrinity.com/saints…_humility.html

 

[mariafransisca3]

If you have love, that is humility.

Yes, when you turn the other cheek when somebody hurt you that is humility.

When you are with the errors of the church that’s humility

But you have to get to know the true church, before the erroneous Pope Paul the VI changed it:

This is how it looked like before it was changed in 1962
youtube.com/watch?v=enWiFcsBqIE

It is mass with gregorian chants without sermons. Called the tridentine mass

I am at what Pope Paul VI did, to us his children.

If you defend what is good, that is humility.

If you are mad with bad things under the name of fake faith (and there are many, even in the catholic church oh wow, after it is changed… after it is changed)

Tridentine mass , with gregorian chants is the mass of the saints. It produces many saints in europe. Most saints comes from europe. They are polish, french, italians (many italians, including mother angelica, a to be saint), portuguese. And look after the Tridentine Mass is changed to Pope Paul VI Mass…

Europe becomes 20% atheist. 20% out of billions is a lot They used to be 80% catholic. Because the mass is like a social gathering now, and it is NOT

If you do not do bad things to your neighbor, or refrain from doing so, that’s humility

If you feel guilt, and repent after doing bad things, that’s humility

If you love your enemies, and do not do bad things to them, that’s humility

If you love your neighbor as yourself. That’s humility

Jesus loves all kinds of people. Even the Samaritans, who was technically not “the People of God”. They don’t know God. They were pagans. But the Good Samaritan had love. Love in his heart. For his neighbor. It is pleasing in God’s eyes. There are many good samaritans now.

Yes, Jesus loves you. If you have love, jesus loves you, dearly. What he can’t stand is a heart void of love. And it is not you. Love is what he seeks. Love in your heart.

Love is humility

May the merciful Jesus bless you

 

[admonsta]

Here is a big “I think”:

Humility is a fruit of the Holy Spirit. We can’t really be humble without the grace given to us by God through the Holy Spirit. Therefore, even if you are not consciously doing something with God in mind, you are still doing His will, and becoming more like Him. As you grow in the Spirit, the gifts and fruits of the spirit will be more evident within you.

You really can’t make yourself humble without God, you have to grow spiritually and use the gifts that are readily available for anyone who wants to make use of them.

That’s how I see it anyway.

 

[GloriousOrder]

This reminds me of the grandson who said: “Pappy, I love you even more than God!”, and the grandfather was scandalised. He eventually realised, though, that the little child didn’t literally compare his love of Jesus to his love for his grandfather, but he saw that the love his grandson had for him is God. The very love with which the innocent boy said “I love you more than God” simply is God Himself, the love of timeless ages and unmeasured vistas. In the same way, any humility undertaken for humility’s own sake, not necessarily “for God”, is still the undertaking of some virtue; since God Himself originated all virtue and became humility itself on the Cross, being humble in of itself is truly being Godly. Try to remember God when you do it, though…

 

[bmullins]

I think humility is important, but that the concern becomes not “Is being humble without it being for God” important but rather, “should we do anything without it being for God?”

1 Corinthians 10:31 - …whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

We should instead of trying to find a way not to be humble, find a way to make sure every single action we do is for God’s glory. We should be humble in all those situations you mention, but we should also be doing it because God expects it from us. Humility is beneficial not only for us but for those we are humble to. When they see us being humble, and know that we are Christian, it becomes a potential moment for them to say 'Hey… I want whatever they’ve got!"