Hannah Anderson: Remembering Humility as a Virtue (Illustration via Getty Images) With Donald Trump’s decisive win this week, the 2024 presidential election has come to an end.

Although it partly depends on what you mean by humility. Humility is a tricky virtue to talk about. If you say you’re not humble, you’re probably telling the truth.

Where does the virtue of humility appear along this spectrum? In thinking about this, I’m reminded of the short story called Bontshe Shvayg – Bontshe the Silent, first published in 1894 (2).

As the Apostles tell us, humility, or knowing exactly how much we don’t know, is a virtue as important as loving your neighbor. Humility is one of our greatest yet unacknowledged virtues ...

Remember, humility is “the quality of being humble,” of being receptive to a more accurate sense of self. There is, of course, a twisted sense of pride that leads to a false façade of humility.

While humility is not part of the seven “heavenly virtues,” the pope underscored ... The Holy Father further developed this point by looking to Mary as a personification of the virtue of humility.

Proverbs 11:2, for example, makes note of both the “great sin” and perhaps, the greatest virtue: “When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.” ...

Everyday ethics: Exploring eternal truths about sin, virtue Attitudes and terminology change, but the reality of the human condition does not.

Some people are born humble. Others have humility thrust upon them. That's what happened to Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), whose feast is celebrated each year on July 31, the day he died.

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 ...

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 ...