HUMILITY
Humility may be defined to be a habit of mind and heart corresponding to our comparative unworthiness and vileness before God, or a sense of our own comparative meanness in His sight, with the disposition to a behavior answerable thereto.
And a truly humble man is sensible of the small extent of his knowledge, and the great extent of his ignorance, and of the small extent of his understanding as compared with the understanding of God.
He is sensible of his weakness, how little his strength is, and how little he is able to do.
He is sensible of his natural distance from God, of his dependence on Him, of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God's power that he is upheld and provided for; and that he needs God's wisdom to lead and guide him, and his might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him.
Jonathan Edwards
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