Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Humility

According to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, humility is best defined as ”a reverent love of the Truth.

What a beautiful and appropriate definition.

-Rob

addendum:
On the topic of surrender, it seems to come up all the time where people ask “well how exactly does one surrender something?
Humbling oneself in the fashion that St. Bernard describes would seem to be a very effective way of surrendering.
To truly revere the Truth in this way is to surrender All to it.
St. Augustine once explained that, in the pursuit of holiness, three virtues are fundamental: the first being humility, the second being humility, and the third…humility!

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