quotations about meekness
How equable is the career of meekness! How easily sits upon the meek man the government of his passions! How gracefully does he sway his sceptre! He is not in perpetual danger of suffering from excess, he is not obliged unceasingly to watch, and curb, and rein in a wild and headstrong spirit; but his course through life is gentle and secure, as it tends to that peaceful bourne, where he will find quietness and assurance forever.
JOSEPH STEVENS BUCKMINSTER
Sermons
At the present rate, there isn't going to be much left of the earth for the meek to inherit.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
Poems and Paragraphs
Blessed are the meek, for they are barricaded from the shots of the devil's artillery and the persecutions of this world by sacks of wool. They are like glass vessels packed in hay or straw to preserve them from jarring. Meekness is the strong shield by which the arrows of wrath are broken or turned aside.
FRANCISCO DE OSUNA
The Third Spiritual Alphabet
But this has not yet taken place: evil doers now possess the earth, and the meek are depressed, and are only strangers and pilgrims in this present world. But hereafter, in a future life, after the resurrection, when Christ shall come again in glory, this state of things shall be reversed.
DANIEL BAGOT
An Exposition of the Gospel According to St. Matthew
The meek are strong in God's sight, for they are submissive to the divine will and thus enabled by God s might.
WILSON DAVID
Life Principles of the Master
He who has found Meekness has found divinity; he has realized divine consciousness, and knows himself as divine. He also knows all others as divine, though they know it not themselves, being asleep and dreaming. Meekness is a divine quality, and as such is all powerful. The meek man overcomes by not resisting, and by allowing himself to be defeated he attains to the Supreme Conquest.
JAMES ALLEN
Mind is the Master
Those who have tried meekness know the importance of being important.
GEORGE ADE
"The Fable of the Two Ways of Going Out After the Pay Envelope", True Bills
This meekness is an ornament, that, like the Israelites' clothes in the wilderness, never waxes old, nor will ever go out of fashion while right reason and religion have any place in the world: all wise and good people will reckon those best drest that put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and walk with him in the white of meekness and innocency.
MATTHEW HENRY
A Discourse Concerning Meekness and Quietness of Spirit
Reason will be better spoken, and a righteous cause better pleaded, with meekness, than with passion; hard arguments do best with soft words.
ELIAS LYMAN MAGOON
Proverbs for the People
Meekness is power completely surrendered to God's control.
JOHN MACARTHUR
The MacArthur Study Bible
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
JESUS
Matthew 5:5
Meekness is the chief grace and perfection of the soul.
LORD ACTON
attributed, Day's Collacon
The meek christian is one who has learned at the school of Jesus Christ, to restrain unlawful anger, and to moderate lawful resentment. If he is endued with what is commonly called a good natural temper, he exercises this good temper from christian motives; such as, the pardoning love of God, the command of the law, the example of Jesus Christ, who was meek and lowly. But though his natural temper should happen to be fiery and eager, he has found the virtue of that promise. "The wolf shall dwell with the lamb; the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox." He is not angry but on just occasions; and even when the occasion is just, his anger is kept under proper regulations.
WILLIAM MCEWEN
"On Meekness", Select Essays Doctrinal & Practical on a Variety of the Most Important and Interesting Subjects in Divinity
The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when got out, soon gone.
PHILIP HENRY
attributed, Illustrative Gatherings for Preachers and Teachers
Meekness is not a soft, yielding, natural disposition, nor a prudent bridling of a passionate nature; but it is humility applied to the world, not taking offense at the offenses of the world.
GEORGE A. EDGAR
Christian Nation, February 9, 1910
Meekness is a grace which Jesus alone inculcated, and which no ancient philosopher seems to have understood or recommended.
JOSEPH STEVENS BUCKMINSTER
Sermons
Beware the meek ... for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth.
ROGER ZELAZNY
He Who Shapes
When Jesus said the meek are blessed, the kind of meekness he was talking about is the same kind of meekness that Roman officer meant when he described the stallion. This meekness has nothing to do with being spineless or weak, nor does it refer to being timid or shy. The meek Jesus was talking about are people whose strength is disciplined and whose power is harnessed, gentle, and humble.
JAMES L. MAYFIELD
The Sermon on the Mount: A Personal Encounter with the Wisdom of Jesus
Meekness is hanging on the cross when you could have summoned Legions of Angels to destroy us all. Meekness is JESUS!
HOWARD R. CARTER
Single in the Church
Meekness is imperfect, if it be not active and passive--if it will not enable us to subdue our own passions and resentments, as well as qualify us to bear the passions and resentments of others.
REV. W. LEE
attributed, Day's Collacon