Humility is Truth
“ God must
sometimes allow us to act on our own so we can learn humility, so we can learn
the truth of our total dependence on him, so we can learn that all our actions
are sustained by his grace and that without him we can do nothing—not even make
our own mistakes.
Learning the full
truth of our dependence upon God and our relation to his will is what the
virtue of humility is all about. For humility is truth, the full truth, the
truth that encompasses our relation to God the Creator and through him to the
world he has created and to our fellowmen. And what we call humiliations are
the trials by which our more complete grasp of this truth is tested.
It is self that is humiliated;
there would be no "humiliation" if we had learned to put self in its
place, to see ourselves in proper perspective before God and other men. And the
stronger the ingredient of self develops in our lives, the more severe must our
humiliations be in order to purify us. That was the terrible insight that
dawned upon me in the cell at Lubianka as I prayed, shaken and dejected, after
my experience with the interrogator
The Spirit had not
abandoned me, for the whole experience had been his work. The sense of guilt
and shame I felt was rooted in my failure to put grace ahead of nature, my
failure to trust primarily in God rather than in my own powers..."
From Walter J. Ciszek's book, He Leadeth me
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