Humility is the virtue which is perhaps more easily misunderstood and underappreciated than any other. Our culture values personal confidence, self-belief and resolution, and rightly so. And we are acutely aware of the psychological dangers of low-self-esteem, with which so many people struggle today, especially the young. Yet true humility is not in opposition to a positive attitude and healthy self-confidence. For Christian humility consists of nothing other than honest self-knowledge, a recognition of who and what one is in relation to God, to the world, and to one’s fellow human beings.