quotations about meekness
Meekness is tender; consulting the feelings of others, and willing to bear much pain rather than inflict any.
ANONYMOUS
The Christian Gleaner and Domestic Magazine, July 1827
Meekness is when you are in a position of strength and power--yet you choose not to use that power against your opponent, your critic, your accuser, your persecutor.
MICHAEL YOUSSEF
15 Secrets to a Wonderful Life
Meekness is a temper opposite to irritable; it is a grace commended by the Savior.
A. RITCHIE
attributed, Day's Collacon
He is a profitable hearer of the word; for, he receives it with meekness. His prayers are pure and prevalent; for he lifts up holy hands without wrath.--His reproofs are successful; and let them be never so sharp, are well received, because the spirit of meekness anoints them like precious oil. He is clad in a kind of armor that renders him invulnerable. He lies not at the mercy of every puny assailant, that would attack him with the sword of the tongue; because, like a deaf man, he hears not. He is a most acceptable friend, and a most victorious enemy; and his enemies, though like the devil for malice, are forced to reverence him. When he shews out of a good conversation his works with meekness and wisdom, he is a bright image of Christ; a living representation of God, who is slow to anger, of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. He takes the most effectual method to promote even his temporal interest, ease, and reputation. He has the real enjoyment of himself; is a true inheritor of the earth. And God at last will beautify him with salvation.
WILLIAM MCEWEN
"On Meekness", Select Essays Doctrinal & Practical on a Variety of the Most Important and Interesting Subjects in Divinity
The meek are angels rather than men.
FRANCISCO DE OSUNA
The Third Spiritual Alphabet
Men sometimes speak as if humility and meekness would rob us of what is noble and bold and manlike. O that all would believe that this is the nobility of the kingdom of heaven, that this is the royal spirit that the King of heaven displayed, that this is Godlike, to humble oneself, to become the servant of all!
ANDREW MURRAY
Humility
There is nothing lost by meekness and yielding.
JOHN TRAPP
A Commentary or Exposition Upon All the Books of the New Testament
This grace of Meekness never goes alone, where this is there are other graces too.
INCREASE MATHER
Sermons
As lowliness of heart maketh a man highly in favor with God, so meekness of words maketh him to sink into the hearts of men.
THOMAS LUSHINGTON
attributed, Day's Collacon