Francis Quarles Quotes about Humility
Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 485, 1895.
The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.
Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.91
The light of the understanding, humility kindleth and pride covereth.
Richard Crashaw, George Gilfillan, Francis Quarles (1857). “Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems”, p.237
