Humility is not self-depreciation, or a making oneself out to be less than one is, or worse than one is. Humility is simply the clear, conscious knowledge, the abiding and vivid recollection, the practical recognition and confession, that one is a creature, and, as such, has a Creator, from whom depends, not only all that one has, but all that one is.
The virtue of humility is, in other words, the first article of the Creed, "I believe in God", carried out into practice. We cannot move hand or foot, or draw a breath, or conceive an idea, or utter a word, without concurrent action and direct cooperation on the part of our Creator.
-- Father William Humphrey, SJ
