Humility

Humility is a Christian virtue, but it is not easily defined. I wanted to share this explanation from Frederick Buechner:

True humility doesn’t consist of thinking ill of yourself but of not thinking of yourself much differently from the way you’d be apt to think of anybody else. It is the capacity for being no more and no less pleased when you play your own hand well than when your opponents do. [1]


[1] Frederick Buechner, “Humility,” Frederick Buechner (blog), August 18, 2016, https://www.frederickbuechner.com/quote-of-the-day/2016/8/18/humility.

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