“Faith is the champion of grace, and love the nurse; but humility is the beauty of grace.”
Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) English Puritan
Source: Quotes from secondary sources, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, 1895, P. 221.
“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.”
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Sec. 145
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 329.
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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.
“Humility, that low, sweet root
From which all heavenly virtues shoot.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
The Loves of the Angels, The Third Angel's Story.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.”
John Selden (1584–1654) English jurist and scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution, and of Jewish law
Humility.
Table Talk (1689)
“Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
Source: Dialogues in Limbo (1926), Ch. 4