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Author : Pope Leo XIII
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Humility
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CR00301167
Author : Saint Alonso Rodríguez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026503148
Author : John Norris
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0483883549
Excerpt from A Practical Treatise Concerning Humility: Design'd for the Furtherance and Improvement of That Great Christian Vertue, Both in the Minds and Lives of Men May be room enough for me, if I were capable of filling it. How far I may agree with either of thofe Authors in any of my Thoughts upon this Occafion, I know not, (having not feen Mr. Allen's Book thefe many Years, and the other never as I know of) nor do I think it ma terial to inquire. Only perhaps it may be convenient upon ano-g. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Anonymous,BiblioBazaar
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1293827029
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ The Practice Of Humility: A Treatise 6 Pope Leo XIII Joseph Jerome Vaughan Burns & Oates, Ltd., 1898 Humility; Virtues
Author : John Norris
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 102173022X
A classic work on the topic of humility, written from a Christian perspective. The book explores the nature of humility and its importance in the moral and spiritual life. The author draws on the wisdom of the Christian tradition, as well as the insights of the ancient philosophers, to offer a thoughtful and inspiring reflection on this essential virtue. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Dietrich Von Hildebrand
Publisher : Sophia Institute Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780918477590
Of all sins, pride is the most dangerous . . . and the most sorrowful: it cuts the Christian off from God, estranges him from others, and leaves him lost and unhappy. This book shows readers how to drive pride from the soul and discover the incredible strength and joys of humility today.
Author : Joseph J McInerney
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227905586
The virtue of humility is a much debated subject. To many, humility is an attractive character trait in others, the opposite of pride and arrogance. Yet many philosophers, be they ancient or modern, find little value in humility as a virtue. For theAristotelian moral tradition, humility is an impediment to greatness. Modern philosophers take this sentiment further, asserting that humility only leads to unhappiness and human debasement. The Christian intellectual tradition, however, provides a contrast to these negative appraisals of humility. St Augustine of Hippo is an eloquent and robust proponent of the value of humility. Unlike the thinkers of the classical and modern philosophic traditions, Augustine asserts that humility is not onlya significant virtue; it is the indispensable foundation of human greatness. In The Greatness of Humility, Joseph J. McInerney traces how Augustine makes his argument regarding the importance of humility and shows how his position measures up to those of his philosophical rivals.
Author : Fr. Cajetan Mary da Bergamo
Publisher : Ravenio Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
In this classic work, Fr. Cajetan Mary da Bergamo explores the virtue of humility, which he considers the foundation of all virtues. Drawing from the teachings of saints and his own experience as a spiritual director, he provides practical guidance on how to cultivate humility in daily life. This book is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to grow in holiness and deepen their relationship with God.
Author : Andrew Murray
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : EAN:8596547789420
Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness is a religious treatise written by South African teacher and Christian pastor Andrew Murray. It tells about why being prideful is terrible when we are Christians. It talks about the relationships between humility and holiness, sin, faith, death to self, happiness and exaltation. According to Murray, humility is the virtue that enables us to be most like Christ and being that, it is the attribute that most Christians need but that most don't want. True humility involves dying to self and letting Christ live in you. Murray claims that death to self enables one to be true self because as we become less, we actually become more as Christ dwells in us in His fullness. He also gives some wonderful examples about how Jesus displayed humility, as well as the examples of humility and lack of humility of his 12 disciples. The book contains many important lessons about being humble before God, but most importantly being humble in our everyday life among others. "Lord, Teach Us to Pray" is a treatise on prayer loaded with timeless lessons on prayer and can be looked a devotional meditation on the nature of prayer.
Author : André Comte-Sponville
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781429922814
An utterly original exploration of the timeless human virtues and how they apply to the way we live now, from a bold and dynamic French writer. In this graceful, incisive book, writer-philosopher André Comte-Sponville reexamines the classic human virtues to help us under-stand "what we should do, who we should be, and how we should live." In the process, he gives us an entirely new perspective on the value, the relevance, and even the charm of the Western ethical tradition. Drawing on thinkers from Aristotle to Simone Weil, by way of Aquinas, Kant, Rilke, Nietzsche, Spinoza, and Rawls, among others, Comte-Sponville elaborates on the qualities that constitute the essence and excellence of humankind. Starting with politeness -- almost a virtue -- and ing with love -- which transcs all morality -- A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues takes us on a tour of the eighteen essential virtues: fidelity, prudence, temperance, courage, justice, generosity, compassion, mercy, gratitude, humility, simplicity, tolerance, purity, gentleness, good faith, and even, surprisingly, humor.Sophisticated and lucid, full of wit and vivacity, this modestly titled yet immensely important work provides an indispensable guide to finding what is right and good in everyday life.
Author : Pope Leo XIII
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1962639045
Humility is the greatest virtue in the spiritual life, the virtue which unlocks the graces of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. It is the virtue by which we reach Heaven. It is the virtue Our Lord prized, for He is the greatest instructor of humility: "Learn of me, because I am meek and humble of heart" (Matt. 11:29). In this marvelous work, Pope Leo XIII sets forth sixty counsels, little reflections, on how you can strive for this most glorious virtue. And he concludes this book with some of the most beautiful quotes on humility from some of the greatest saints. He wrote this powerful little work while serving as the Bishop of Perugia. "Let the study of the knowledge of yourself, the fleeing from honors, and the love of humiliations, be your weapons; and of these you should never divest yourself, no, not even for a single moment," says Pope Leo XIII. The pope further declares, "Holy Communion, by which we receive within our breasts in very substance the God made man and annihilated for love of us, is a wonderful school of humility and a most powerful means of acquiring it." Humility must be practiced daily in order to be acquired. Only a man of humility could write such a profound work-a work, which will inspire you to battle the vice of pride with renewed vigor.
Author : Craig Steven Titus
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813214634
The book offers a renewed, classic vision of the human person and the ordering of the sciences as read through the complementary and, at one level, corrective insights of empirical psychosocial studies on resilience.
Author : Saint Catherine of Siena
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1979126380
A TREATISE OF DISCRETION How the affection should not place reliance chiefly on penance, but rather on virtues; and how discretion receives life from humility, and renders to each man his due. "These are the holy and sweet works which I seek from My servants; these are the proved intrinsic virtues of the soul, as I have told you. They not only consist of those virtues which are done by means of the body, that is, with an exterior act, or with diverse and varied penances, which are the instruments of virtue; works of penance performed alone without the above-mentioned virtues would please Me little; often, indeed, if the soul perform not her penance with discretion, that is to say, if her affection be placed principally in the penance she has undertaken, her perfection will be impeded; she should rather place reliance on the affection of love, with a holy hatred of herself, accompanied by true humility and perfect patience, together with the other intrinsic virtues of the soul, with hunger and desire for My honor and the salvation of souls. For these virtues demonstrate that the will is dead, and continually slays its own sensuality through the affection of love of virtue. With this discretion, then, should the soul perform her penance, that is, she should place her principal affection in virtue rather than in penance. Penance should be but the means to increase virtue according to the needs of the individual, and according to what the soul sees she can do in the measure of her own possibility. Otherwise, if the soul place her foundation on penance she will contaminate her own perfection, because her penance will not be done in the light of knowledge of herself and of My goodness, with discretion, and she will not seize hold of My truth; neither loving that which I love, nor hating that which I hate. This virtue of discretion is no other than a true knowledge which the soul should have of herself and of Me, and in this knowledge is virtue rooted. Discretion is the only child of self-knowledge, and, wedding with charity, has indeed many other descendants, as a tree which has many branches; but that which gives life to the tree, to its branches, and its root, is the ground of humility, in which it is planted, which humility is the foster-mother and nurse of charity, by whose means this tree remains in the perpetual calm of discretion. Because otherwise the tree would not produce the virtue of discretion, or any fruit of life, if it were not planted in the virtue of humility, because humility proceeds from self-knowledge. And I have already said to you, that the root of discretion is a real knowledge of self and of My goodness, by which the soul immediately, and discreetly, renders to each one his due. Chiefly to Me in rendering praise and glory to My Name, and in referring to Me the graces and the gifts which she sees and knows she has received from Me; and rendering to herself that which she sees herself to have merited, knowing that she does not even exist of herself, and attributing to Me, and not to herself, her being, which she knows she has received by grace from Me, and every other grace which she has received besides.
Author : Kent Dunnington
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Analytic The
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198818397
Humility, Pride, and Christian Virtue Theory proposes an account of humility that relies on the most radical Christian sayings about humility, especially those found in Augustine and the early monastic tradition. It argues that this was the view of humility that put Christian moral thought into decisive conflict with the best Greco-Roman moral thought. This radical Christian account of humility has been forgotten amidst contemporary efforts to clarify and retrieve the virtue of humility for secular life. Kent Dunnington shows how humility was repurposed during the early-modern era-particularly in the thought of Hobbes, Hume, and Kant-to better serve the economic and social needs of the emerging modern state. This repurposed humility insisted on a role for proper pride alongside humility, as a necessary constituent of self-esteem and a necessary motive of consistent moral action over time. Contemporary philosophical accounts of humility continue this emphasis on proper pride as a counterbalance to humility. By contrast, radical Christian humility proscribes pride altogether. Dunnington demonstrates how such a radical view need not give rise to vices of humility such as servility and pusillanimity, nor need such a view fall prey to feminist critiques of humility. But the view of humility set forth makes little sense abstracted from a specific set of doctrinal commitments peculiar to Christianity. This study argues that this is a strength rather than a weakness of the account since it displays how Christianity matters for the shape of the moral life.
Author : Cajetan da Bergamo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1512347957
To his own soul Cardinal Vaughan found so much benefit from the cultivation in it of Humility, that he resolved, at no small cost to himself, in the feeble state in which he then was, to gird himself and to go forth sowing broadcast, into the soil of the hearts of the laity as well as of clergy, this despised little mustard seed of which men speak so much but know so little. It was Padre Gaetano's work on Humility that had been the instrument, in God's hand, of helping the Cardinal. Accordingly in his zeal for souls he proposed to put it into English, so as to bring the work within the reach of all such as care for the health, growth and strength, of their own individual souls in solid virtue. That the Cardinal has left us a precious legacy in this treatise on Humility will, I feel sure, be the verdict of all who study, or who only peruse these pages, done into English from the Italian of the devout Minor Capuchin whose death occurred over two centuries ago. Between the covers of this unpretending volume there is nourishment for all who "hunger and thirst after justice"-----for the proficient in spiritual life as well as for the beginner-----Humility, as it were, holding in itself all those elements that are needed to build up the strong Christian man. In it the soul will find a sovereign remedy for its many ills, a matchless balm for its many wounds, while a soul-beauty all is own will spring up in all who shall learn how to use it wisely under the guidance of the Holy Spirit." He who is truly humble," says St. Bernard, "knows how to convert all his humiliations into humility," while out of humility God can raise a soul to what otherwise might be, giddy heights of sanctity. If anyone should need a proof of this statement I will refer him to any chapter in the life of any Saint in our Calendar. For a moment gaze into the face of "the Woman clothed with the Sun" and remember the words, "Respexit humilitatem ancillae suae." The height of Mary's sanctity is gauged by the depth of her humility: "Exaltavit humiles." To the Clergy and Ladies of Charity, to whom the Cardinal dedicates these "Thoughts and Sentiments," this volume will come with very special meaning. It enshrines the last words of a great Churchman, of a truly spiritual man, while it conveys a special message from the Cardinal's heart to all readers. This treatise is a sort of last will and testament of Cardinal Vaughan, bequeathed to those with whom he was most intimately associated in work for the good of souls. It is a legacy from one who made Humility a life-long study, and who had more opportunities than most of us know of making tremendous strides in it, through the humiliations which he welcomed as most precious opportunities offered him by God for the salvation and sanctification of his soul. May he rest in peace.
