“Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.”

As quoted in The Book of Unusual Quotations (1957) by Rudolf Franz Flesch, p. 122.

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 294.

Sec. 145
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Context: Though the managing ourselves well in this part of our behavior has the name good-breeding, as if a peculiar effect of education; yet... young children should not be much perplexed about it... Teach them humility, and to be good-natur'd, if you can, and this sort of manners will not be wanting; civility being in truth nothing but a care not to shew any slighting or contempt of any one in conversation.

On Culture in Whose Culture is it? Contesting the Modem in Journal of Arts & Ideas, 23 December 2013, 1993, The Digital South Asia Library, 144 http://dsal.uchicago.edu/books/artsandideas/text.html?objectid=HN681.S597_25-26_148.gif,
Sources

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 329.

Source: Infinite in All Directions (1988), Ch. 1 : In Praise of Diversity
Context: There is no easy solution to the conflict between fundamentalist Christian dogma and the facts of biological evolution. I am not saying that the conflict could have been altogether avoided. I am saying only that the conflict was made more bitter and more damaging, both to religion and to science, by the dogmatic and self-righteousness of scientists. What was needed was a little more human charity, a little more willingness to listen rather than to lay down the law, a little more humility. Scientists stand in need of these Christian virtues just as much as preachers do.

The Loves of the Angels, The Third Angel's Story.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Humility.
Table Talk (1689)

Source: Dialogues in Limbo (1926), Ch. 4