What does the Church say about self-esteem?translated

At first glance, the term “self-esteem” is something from psychology: trainings, affirmations, advice to love yourself. It seems that this is a purely secular topic and the Church has nothing to do with it. But is this really so?

Let's start with the main thing: Christianity does not teach a person to consider himself insignificant. It is a common and very persistent misconception that humility means constantly repeating “I am worse than everyone else.” In fact, humility in the Christian understanding is not self-abasement, but a sober look at oneself: seeing one’s strengths and not being exalted, seeing one’s weaknesses and not falling into despair.

What is humility? In one article on the website Pravoslavie.ru I saw the following phrase: “This is the feat of all the saints: they were so humble, so lacking in arrogance,...

According to Christian teaching, every person is created in the image and likeness of God. This means that a person’s dignity does not depend either on his successes or on how others evaluate him, because we often try to build self-esteem on comparison with someone: I am smarter, more beautiful, more successful than someone else, or, conversely, worse. But if each of us carries the image of God within ourselves, then it means that we all have value, simply based on this...