Humility vs Low Self Image

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thistle said:
Only the Catholic Church has the FULLNESS of Truth. There are no gray areas in Church teachings.
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If there are no gray areas, what does the Church say in respect to everything becoming nullified when in the face of God?
 
By humility we come to know our own nothingness and God’s immense goodness. Both go hand-in-hand.

If we do not know our own sinfulness and absolute inability to do any good without God’s grace, how can we expect to understand just how pure, how great and how tender God’s love is?
 
littlestsouls2 said:
By humility we come to know our own nothingness and God’s immense goodness. Both go hand-in-hand.

If we do not know our own sinfulness and absolute inability to do any good without God’s grace, how can we expect to understand just how pure, how great and how tender God’s love is?
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You think it can’t have the opposite effect? Constant acknowledgment of sinfulness and spiritual self-depreciation leads to cynicism with a religious face. It’s an ironic and ultimately self-defeating spirituality that uses God’s greatness as the ultimate excuse to destroy oneself because one feels so unworthy even of grace.
 
Robert_Sock said:
If there are no gray areas, what does the Church say in respect to everything becoming nullified when in the face of God?
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Start a new thread on why you have beliefs in teachings of Judaism when they contradict those of the Catholic Church.

We should not derail this thread.
 
Lost_Wanderer said:
You think it can’t have the opposite effect? Constant acknowledgment of sinfulness and spiritual self-depreciation leads to cynicism with a religious face. It’s an ironic and ultimately self-defeating spirituality that uses God’s greatness as the ultimate excuse to destroy oneself because one feels so unworthy even of grace.
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It can. I think that knowledge of one’s misery by itself can have the opposite effect; but if this is combined with knowledge of God’s goodness, then it can be a great grace.

Take St. Crescentia for example. She called herself a “sinful worm” - she knew her own sinfulness and weakness. But she also knew how much God loved her, and she was profoundly humbled and moved to see a God of such perfection and majesty begging for her love. She knew well that she was a child of God, redeemed with the Precious Blood of Jesus. She didn’t think herself worthy of God’s grace, but this didn’t lead her to brood over her own unworthiness; instead, she strove for perfection, knowing that the intimate union God called her to was an effect of His pure love for her. Consequently, she was - by all accounts - full of great joy and perpetual admiration.
 
thistle said:
Start a new thread on why you have beliefs in teachings of Judaism when they contradict those of the Catholic Church.

We should not derail this thread.
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Which view goes against the Church?
 
Robert_Sock said:
Which view goes against the Church?
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You are digressing from the thread topic. Start a new thread. I’m happy to go back to your other threads and highlight the beliefs you referred to from Judaism that contradict Church teachings.
For now stick to thread topic.
 
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