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myLot reputation of 93/100. aslanlight (1622) 4 years ago

"I'm ever so humble as I salivate to ingratiate myself with you and lick your botty God" Remember Dickens' Uriah Heep? This is not my idea of humility at all!

Humility is honesty, its being who you are, standing tall and shouting "I AM!!!" at the top of your voice.

A sister explained it like this: when she was young she fell in love with a guy but it was too late because she'd already become a nun. Well she stood out in a field and she screamed and ranted and raved at God, then she explained that this is humility, it's standing before God exactly as you are and being honest, hiding nothing.

Humility is also the honesty in being able to wonder at the awesomeness of God and the universse.

That's my account of humility, what's yours?

 

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ruperto (1045) response was accepted on 8/31/2008.
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1. myLot reputation of 88/100. ruperto (1045)   ranked 2,080 out of 19,246 in questions & answers   4 years ago

I agree that humility is so many things to different people at different times.

Confucius refers to humility as : "the foundation of all virtues."

Personally I think humility is :
- to learn to relearn even if we are sure that what we already know is right.
- to learn to unlearn is some of the things we know are no longer totally true.

Cheers :)


myLot reputation of 93/100. aslanlight (1622)  4 years ago

The great Karl Barth, mighty with a pen theologian, taught that we should get up each morning and begin again with the windows of our skylights (our minds) wide open!

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