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
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
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 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
Meekness is better than sacrifice.
RABBI ASHI
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
A meek man enjoys almost a perpetual Sabbath.
PHILIP HENRY
attributed, Illustrative Gatherings for Preachers and Teachers
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 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
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
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
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
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
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