Of the many virtues we find in the Bible, which is most significant? Love? Holiness? Generosity? Integrity? Selflessness? In Galatians 5:22-23 we find one short list of possibilities: “But the fruit ...

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The Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume, a friend of Adam Smith, called humility one of the “monkish” virtues, and he didn’t mean that as a compliment. Humble people, he seemed to say, weren ...

There are four types of humility apparent in SBHG communities: intrapersonal, interpersonal, community and ecological, which interact throughout the lifespan. But the most critical foundations are ...

I cannot understand how there could be humility without love or love without humility. Teresa of Avila (1583/2017 CE), Chap. 16, no. 2, p. 94 As Teresa of Avila’s (1515-1582) epigraph implies, ...

What is humility? I know it when I see it. Difficult if not impossible to define. But I know it when I see it in another person. We are taught from early childhood to be humble. Humility is a virtue ...

It wasn’t too long ago that humility was considered by most Americans to be a virtue. Today however, somehow, hubris seems to have become much more fashionable in our country than humility.

Humility and hospitality, two central themes that emerge from this Sunday's readings, are two virtues that need to be recovered for the full flourishing of life on the planet. The first reading from ...

Editor's note: This essay is adapted from Christopher M. Bellitto's Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue with permission from Georgetown University Press. Some people are born humble. Others ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday closed his catechetical series on vices and virtues with a review of humility, a virtue that forms the “the base of Christian life” and is a source of peace for the Church ...

I’m taking another stab at something I’ve been experimenting with the past few weeks: looking at spiritual concepts that have nearly universal applications for the religious and non-religious alike.