Jun 21, 2022
When you think of yourself as a sinner, and you indeed are, this is no humility.
But when someone who does great things does not feel himself a great man, this is the real humility.
When someone like Paul can say, “For I know nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this” (1 Cor. 4.4),
and, “That Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, of who I am the foremost” (1 Tim. 1.15),
Such a man is indeed humble, who glorifies the works, yet sees himself as the least.
St. John Chrysostom