Meekness Quotes
90 Meekness quotes by 70 unique authors
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Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.
— Richard Mentor Johnson
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The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man.
— Charles Wesley
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This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him,…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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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
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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…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Meekness is one of the brightest graces which can adorn the Christian character.
— J C Ryle
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What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.
— Mary Baker Eddy
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Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride is the enemy,…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective.
— Vincent de Paul
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We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective. We will learn from Our…
— Vincent de Paul
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I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow better not worse…
— C.S. Lewis
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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…
— Jerry Bridges
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Because Jesus Christ has prepared Himself from the foundations of the world we can trust Him as one uniquely qualified through the fullness of His…
— David Wright
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I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world will be theirs…
— Albert Schweitzer
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A meek fellow ... is a real godsend in any gang.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The experience I'm talking about has given me one certainty: the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in…
— Vaclav Havel
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There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the…
— Mark Twain
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Bear calamities with meekness.
— Euripides
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Humility is the mother of many virtues because from it obedience, fear, reverence, patience, modesty, meekness and peace are born. He who is humble easily…
— Thomas of Villanova
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Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men.
— Saint Francis de Sales
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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…
— Charles Fort
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The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human…
— Vaclav Havel
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For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we…
— Stacy Schiff
Who Wrote These Meekness Quotes
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