Is it possible to have humility in some ways and not in others?

[SeriousQuestion]

Because these people realize what they are without grace. Really humility is seeing things as they really are. Through sin we become less than nothing.

 

[Mboo]

Why vile?
I thought most people don’t see themselves as vile unless they have self worth issues.

If a human in his nature sees himself as a vile person, then he certainly has personality disorders or psychological problems.
But in the Faith, human knows that all he can have as good, actually belong to God. And he also knows that all that is proper to him is nothingness and sin. That is why man must pray at all times, because he knows that without the help of God he will certainly sin, and that God is not obliged to help him.

 

[Rozellelily]

Sorry,I find this difficult to understand.
Doesn’t that take away personal responsibility if all acts are due to Gods grace?
Also,do you mean that people like Hitler were given something less from God than other people?
I’m not really understanding.

Everyday all people do sins like sexual sin,or gossip,or be less than charitable and need Gods help for this,but sins like murder I don’t think most people do (thankfully) and to me that seems to be due to personal choice and not due to Gods direct intervention.
For example,atheists don’t believe in God but they don’t kill people in their “godless state” and some of them choose to volunteer to help the homeless etc,so I don’t understand how you mean that human will always choose to do the evil?

Another example is Isis-they do evil but most people are appalled by this,believers and non believers alike.

Thanks

 

[Mboo]

Sorry,I find this difficult to understand.
Doesn’t that take away personal responsibility if all acts are due to Gods grace?

God gives graces to everyone, but to varying degrees. When we receive graces, just enough, we can always do good, but it can be very difficult to do. So we sin often because doing good is very difficult (but not impossible). If God had given you just enough graces, as he probably gave to the one who is seen as a “great villain”, maybe you would have committed crimes more serious than him because of the great difficulty in doing good. .
So if you are less “bad” than a great criminal, it is not because you are better than him, but because you had more graces than him.