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John Brande Morris
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John Brande Morris (4 September 1812 – 9 April 1880) was an English theologian.
Quotes
Christianity must win upon men, as Christ did, by veiling its majesty before it reveals it. Men of retiring and devotional habits must first attract that majesty to themselves, and then it will draw to them others, upon whom an ostentatious display of knowledge would not have exercised any really beneficial influence.
Learned And Philosophical Hindus (1843)
Quotes about John Brande Morris
Eccentric in appearance and manner, he was brimful of genuine and multifarious learning.
William Alexander Greenhill, Morris, John Brande Dictionary of National Biography 1885-1900
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Category:1880 deaths