Meekness Quotes

90 Meekness quotes by 70 unique authors

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness. — Richard Mentor Johnson
The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man. — Charles Wesley
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
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
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
Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words. — Neal A. Maxwell
Meekness is one of the brightest graces which can adorn the Christian character. — J C Ryle
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
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
We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective. — Vincent de Paul
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
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
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
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
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
A meek fellow ... is a real godsend in any gang. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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
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
Bear calamities with meekness. — Euripides
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
Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men. — Saint Francis de Sales
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
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
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
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

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