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“Bearing in mind Christ’s teaching about the significance of humility for the Christian life, knowing that the virtuous life of the saints was imbued with humility and distinguished by it as its most essential property, let us also endeavor, beloved, to have humility, without which we’ll never become true Christians.
Of course, acquiring humility is the most difficult of all podvigs. Often, even the Lord Himself, sending us great trials and tribulations, can’t force us to be humble. This we know, beloved children in Christ, by our own life experience. However, without humility, we’ll never attain salvation. Therefore, let us try to acquire it at least at first in its simplest and original form; i.e., let us be aware of our sinfulness and nothingness before God. Of course, it’s no great merit to be aware of our sins before God when they’re so obvious to us and to others. But if we acquire this initial humility, then we also draw near to its highest form, which consists in considering ourselves worse than others. This humility is highly valuable in the eyes of God. This is why the Lord said: Every one that exalteth himself shall be abased (Lk. 18:14).”

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