Meek Quotes - Page 8

• The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.

  Jackie Vernon

  Sassy, Nerves, Earth

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• Politicians step up and say, "This is what were going to do: we're going to set aside 450 million dollars for a mentorship program for orphaned youth," and so on and so forth, and it sounds great in this romanticized vision of what these alleged leaders are going to do for the alleged meek. But it doesn't examine: why are these kids orphans?

  Mr. Lif

  Kids, Leader, Vision

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• LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Revenge, Mature, Injury

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.707, Library of America

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• Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like, for his heart was meek and he always thought of others. Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Art, Thoughtful

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• One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no matter what they've been doing they weren't sure it was right - lambies all over the world.

  Jack Kerouac

  Encouragement, Eye, Night

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.121, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and lowly, bearing with gladness the yoke of His Father's will. This in the one, the only right, the only possible way of freeing them from their sin, the cause of their unrest.

  George MacDonald

  Father, Yoke, Unrest

  George MacDonald (1989). “Discovering the character of God”, Bethany House Pub

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• The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority."

  Walter Karp

  Crush, Creativity, School

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• Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Commitment, Compromise, Contention

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• Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand. We must not surrender our positions or our values. The gospel of Jesus Christ and the covenants we have made inevitably cast us as combatants in the eternal contest between truth and error. there is no middle ground in that contest.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Jesus, Commitment, Errors

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