Quote of the Day (John Newton, on Love, Humility and Christ)

“I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.”—Anglican clergyman and hymn writer (“Amazing Grace”) John Newton (1725–1807), Aug. 31, 1757 letter to Rev. John Whitford, in Letters by The Rev. John Newton: Of Olney and St. Mary Woolnoth, edited by Josiah Bull (1869)