Humility: Wellspring of Virtue

by Dietrich Von Hildebrand

Overview

Of all sins, pride is the most dangerous . . . and the most sorrowful: it cuts you off from God, estranges you from others, and leaves you lost and unhappy.

These pages show you how to drive pride from your soul. You'll learn to recognize its many forms (including some that masquerade as virtue), and you'll come to see just why they're such barriers to happiness and to holiness.

You'll also discover the incredible strength of humility, the only virtue that has the power to expel every vestige of pride from your soul. These pages will help you to begin experiencing the joys of humility today.

You'll learn:

• How humility breaks the back of every form of pride
• Why it is impossible to grow spiritually without humility
• Why humility is a form of strength — not weakness (as many falsely believe)
• How humility enables you to acknowledge even your gravest sins without despairing
• How humility helps you to see the world clearly, and to love all things in it with greater intensity
• How humility allows you to experience the consolation of God's loving embrace
• Why only humility ensures true freedom
• How humility enables you to see God — not as a vague presence, but as a Person who knows and loves you
• How humility helps you to see the dignity of every person (even the dignity of those you're tempted to scorn)
• How humility lets you hear God calling you personally to life with Him
• Why you best imitate Christ, Mary, and the saints by striving for humility
• And much more!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780918477590
Publisher:	Sophia Institute Press
Publication date:	09/01/1997
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	4.50(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Bob Trussell is the founder and retired chief executive officer of Tempur-Pedic International, Inc., and was vice chairman of the board from 2002 to 2022. Tempur-Pedic acquired Sealy corporation in 2012 and is now known as Tempur Sealy. Tempur-Pedic began as a startup company in 1992 and has nearly five billion dollars a year in worldwide sales. Mr. Trussell successfully employed advertising media and public relations to spread the Tempur-Pedic story. He took the company public in 2003, where it trades on the NYSE as “TPX.” In 2006, he retired as CEO of Tempur-Pedic to serve Christ full-time by using the media for evangelization. He is currently the president of Clean Media, a digital advertising platform catering to Catholic, general Christian, and secular websites. Mr. Trussell received a B.S. degree from Marquette University in 1974. He is chairman of Catholics Come Home (a Catholic evangelization nonprofit) and Virtue Media (a Catholic, pro-life media apostolate), and former cha

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