Self-Love versus Self-Esteem

What’s the difference between self-love and self-esteem? Self-love is regarding oneself as important, while self-esteem is the insistence that we always feel good about ourselves. Self-love implies caring, respecting, having responsibility for and knowledge of the self. Self-love leads to self-growth because part of loving ourselves is recognising that there are parts of us that need work and that we are valuable enough to work on. In contrast, as Dr Scott Peck observes in Further Along the Road Less Travelled, self-esteem can lead to a stunting of self-growth because every time we are confronted by evidence that makes us feel bad or makes us see that we are imperfect we try to exterminate the evidence rather than use it to make some kind of correction.  

May God give us the ability to love and value and correct ourselves. Aameen.