MEEKNESS QUOTES II

quotations about meekness

Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.

GARRISON KEILLOR

"When I'm 64", Salon, August 8, 2006

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The law of meekness is: If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, not only give him drink, (which is an act of charity), but drink to him, in token of friendship, and true love, and reconciliation; and in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, not to consume him, but to melt and soften him, that he may be cast into a new mould.

MATTHEW HENRY

A Discourse Concerning Meekness and Quietness of Spirit

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Meekness is one of those mysterious virtues that we hardly even ponder. We may gossip that some blowhard is hardly humble, but we don't think, "You know, what that guy needs is a little more meekness." Meekness sounds wimpy, almost negative. If someone's meek, it sounds like they're a pushover. A doormat. A wimp. But here's the reality: true meekness exerts incredible power. Meekness is not weakness. Meekness is strength. It has softened hearts and toppled empires. It's a power that can't be countered.

TOMPAUL WHEELER

God Space


The meek are they who are gentle, humble, modest, simple in faith, patient under all injury, who set themselves to follow the precepts of the gospel and the example of the saints.

CORNELIUS A LAPIDE

The Great Commentary of Cornelius A Lapide


The meek are those who do not lift up nor cause their voice to be heard in the streets; who will not complain of injuries, nor cry aloud for the redress of their wrongs; but count it better to suffer than to contend.

REV. E. IRVING

"Interpretation of the Old Testament Prophecies Quoted in the New", The Morning Watch, 1832


Meekness ... is a grace which receives little of the applauses of the world.

JOSEPH STEVENS BUCKMINSTER

Sermons


A graceful heart is a virtue of the meek.

SUZY KASSEM

Rise Up and Salute the Sun


Meekness is His enabling strength to do what His Word prescribes. It is genuine, quiet strength comfortable with self by making peace with God.

DONALD G. HANNA

Mastering Self


Meekness is better than sacrifice.

RABBI ASHI

attributed, Day's Collacon


A meek man enjoys almost a perpetual Sabbath.

PHILIP HENRY

attributed, Illustrative Gatherings for Preachers and Teachers


Meekness is a grace that cleaves the stock, and holds it open, that the word, as a shoot, may be grafted in; it breaks up the fallow ground, and makes it fit to receive the seed; captivates the high thoughts, and lays the soul like white paper under God's pen.

MATTHEW HENRY

A Discourse Concerning Meekness and Quietness of Spirit

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Meekness is a pulling back of your own ego (humility) in such a way as to make the other (God, person, situation, etc.) more important or central to what is going on at the moment. Meekness is posturing yourself as a signpost for someone or something else: pointing the way.

N. THOMAS JOHNSON-MEDLAND

Feed My Sheep, Lead My Sheep


Goodness is not enough; how many meek and good souls are tilled into the earth like manure by demigods to fertilize their golden crops.

BRYANT MCGILL

Simple Reminders


Meekness is really the power of self-control. And greater is he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

GEORGE A. EDGAR

Christian Nation, February 9, 1910


Meekness is not merely a matter of outward manner, but also, and still more, of inward spirit. A well-known hymn which inculcates the spirit of meekness tells us to "stay the angry blow", and of course it is right. But if we are to be truly meek we must not only "stay the angry blow", we must get into that state and condition in which we do not feel like doing it at all.

DAVID MARTYN LLOYD-JONES

Studies in the Sermon on the Mount


Use meekness with discretion, casting not pearls before swine.
For a fool will tread upon thy neck, if he seeth the lying in the dust;
And there be companies and seasons where resolute bearing is but duty.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy

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The meek are those who yield to acts of wickedness, and do not resist evil, but overcome evil with good.

ST. AUGUSTINE

On the Sermon on the Mount

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Meekness, love, purity--these are the things that should magnify you in the eyes of all good men.

JOSEPH SMITH

Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith

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Meekness is not weakness, but spiritual strength harnessed for service.

JOE COTHEN

The Pulpit is Waiting


Meekness is our strength. Meekness is our authority. Meekness is our power. Because it is the strength and power and authority of Christ! Self is gone--Christ reigns! In Him we live and move and have our very being.

JOHN C. MARTIN

The Sermon on the Mount