Meek Quotes

147 Meek quotes by 123 unique authors

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone. — Matthew Henry
Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that they manipulate the… — Germaine Greer
Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be meek, but follow… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
The good works that really matter require the help of heaven. And the help of heaven requires working past the point of fatigue so far… — Henry B. Eyring
It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the highest beauty, that which is… — Ellen G. White
INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the… — Ambrose Bierce
When in the wondrous realms above Our Saviour had been called upon, To save our world of sin by love, He said, "Thy will, O… — Unknown Author
To achieve charity, we must submit, become patient, meek, humble. . . . We must exercise the love of God as a power. — F. Enzio Busche
You must not allow yourselves to become discouraged. Missionary work brings joy, optimism, and happiness. Don't give Satan an opportunity to discourage you. Here again,… — Ezra Taft Benson
I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and… — William Blake
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. — Barbara Deming
Both gentleness and meekness are born of power, not weakness. There is a pseudo-gentlene ss that is effeminate, and there is a pseudo-meekness that is… — Jerry Bridges
I'm reading the Gospels at the moment and I can find no evidence of the kind of Christ people seem to have invented and created.… — Franco Zeffirelli
Please drop a note to the clerk of the weather, and have a good, rousing snow-storm -- say on the twenty-second. None of your meek,… — Kate Douglas Wiggin
Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth. — William Wordsworth
Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps. — Phyllis McGinley
Meek Walton's heavenly memory. — William Wordsworth
Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek… — Dean Koontz
Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered. — John Calvin
Meek young men grow up in libraries. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is,… — Robert Browning
Do not be vexed with those who show pride, or malice, effeminacy, and impatience in their intercourse with you, or others, but , remembering that… — John of Kronstadt
Some people say that our salvation lies with God, or with God's Son, yet is not the human heart the place where such Divinity is… — Neale Donald Walsch
How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his… — Phillips Brooks
It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker, in installments. Up… — Pete Seeger

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