Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.
Interpretation
Faith, Love, and Humility are essential virtues, with Humility being the most beautiful expression of Grace.
In this quote, Thomas Brooks highlights the interrelationship between three important virtues: Faith, Love, and Humility. He suggests that while Faith acts as a powerful force that champions Grace and Love provides nurturing support, it is Humility that embodies the true beauty of Grace, indicating that approaching life with humility enhances our capacity to receive and express Grace meaningfully.
In practice
This quote could be used in a motivational speech about personal growth.
Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ.
Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.
He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.
Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin, but by believing in a Saviour. It is not resolving, it is not complaining, it is not mourning, but believing, that will make thee divinely victorious over that body of sin that to this day is too strong for thee, and that will certainly be thy ruin, if it be not ruined by a hand of faith.
Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.
Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable genes who fled the crowded Old World for the new continent; it was the people who didn't get along well with others.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.
The tragic reality of today is reflected in the true plight of our spiritual existence. We are spineless and cannot stand straight.
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naΓ―ve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
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