Mike Batie - Daily Quote

Today Mike Batie's qoute is this: "Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less." —C.S. Lewis

Mr. Lewis certainly had a lot of good things to say, he is very quotable. I have collected quite a number of his quotes. I love how he worded what it means to be humble. It doesn't mean being a doormat. That is how I mistakenly viewed myself as being humble, as being a doormat and letting someone walk all over me. This person would try to define me, tell me who I was, and they were often dead wrong...but I would cower or shy away from correcting them or standing my ground, because I thought I was being humble. This person would say mean and hurtful things that made me feel stupid all the time...and I would not stand up for myself or tell them to knock it off because I thought I was being humble, that I was keeping the peace. I could go on and on with examples, but you get the idea. I had the definition of humility all wrong. I THOUGHT LESS OF MYSELF by allowing someone to walk all over me. I should have spoken my mind or gotten the heck out. Now I know that humility is about thinking more about other people, and not thinking less of myself.