John Brande Morris

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