I wanted to give one more link of great resources — you can download some excellent sermons to listen to on your iPod, including the one entitled “Blessed Self-Forgetfulness” by Tim Keller. Here it is: http://www.truecampaign.org/teaching

I don’t remember where I heard this one, but it’s good: Humility is NOT thinking less of ourselves (i.e. thinking we’re worth less or are less valuable) but rather it’s simply thinking about ourselves less (i.e. reduce the amount of time spent focused on ourselves and our want/needs/desires). Clearly the best example of Christian virtues is always Jesus. He was described as humble, but he was also God. So if humility was thinking less of yourself, then Jesus would have thought less of God, made Him less worthy and therefore not worth worship. In reality, Jesus acknowledged the value and glory of God and of himself – he knew what his life and death were worth (all of our eternities), but he simply thought about his own wants/needs/fears less. He put other people first whether it was to heal a leper, speak to a woman who was an outcast, or to die one of the most painful deaths imaginable so that our sins could be forgiven.

Also, I like Isaiah 43:1-4
“But thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in exchange for you. Because you are precious in my sight, and honored, and I love you, I give people in return for you, nations in exchange for your life.”