Meekness Quotes

Meekness Quote of the day

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man.

Meekness enables us to be led by the Spirit of God.

Gentleness is an active trait, describing the manner in which we should treat others. Meekness is a passive trait, describing the proper Christian response when others mistreat us.

Evil and faults are corrected by good, by love, kindness, meekness, humility, and patience.

Most men are notable for one conspicuous virtue or grace - Moses for meekness, Job for patience, John for love. But, in Jesus you find everything.

To hope and trust in the Lord requires faith, patience, humility, meekness, long-suffering, keeping the commandments and enduring to the end.

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

As fire is not extinguished by fire, so anger is not conquered by anger, but is made even more inflamed. But meekness often subdues even the most beastly enemies, softens them and pacifies them.

Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.

When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.

Meekness is the mark of a man who has been mastered by God.

Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men.

Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.

Meekness is one of the brightest graces which can adorn the Christian character.

Now, what is Jesus Christ? The fruit of the spirit is a good example. Jesus is total love, total joy, total peace, total patient, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and self-control.

Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.

Where might is, the right is: Long purses make strong swords. Let weakness learn meekness: God save the House of Lords!

Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.

The lion of anger shall give place to the lamb of meekness; the raven of uncleanness shall fly before the dove of purity; the vile serpent of deceit shall be trodden under the heel of truth.

The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.

Bear calamities with meekness.

Love and meekness, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition: Win straying souls with modesty again, Cast none away.

. . . meekness,love, purity, these are the things that should magnify us.

We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.

If you want to conquer anger, develop meekness and generosity.

Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective.

He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.

Meekness is the mask of malice.

Beware the meek ... for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth.

Those who have tried meekness know the importance of being important.

Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it.

Let the meek have the kingdom of heaven. The strong shall rule on earth.

...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.

Love passes by us, robed in meekness; but we flee from her in fear, or hide in the darkness; or else pursue her, to do evil in her name.

Meekness is power under control.

All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way.

More than anything else we should be concerned about meekness, or our standing in God's sight. If that standing is as it should be, nothing else matters. If it is not, nothing else counts.

Leaning on Him, make with reverent meekness His own thy will.

I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.

Jehovah chose to do great things through me. I lay my life in total humility never to take the Glory that comes from doing His great work… It all belongs to Him

The way of the world isn't the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and whispering in the ears of the strong until they become weak, too.

Humility is the fundamental principle that builds up greatness. Arrogance on the other hand never brings anything good. When you are humble, you’ll learn to become better.

You can’t accept correction when you are not humble to listen.

The beauty of a meek spirit is precious to God

Don't confuse one leader's bluster for muster or another leader's meekness for weakness.