Meekness Quotes

• Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.

  Sivananda

  Spiritual, Humility, Weakness

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• Meekness is calm confidence, settled assurance, and rest of the soul. It is the tranquil stillness of a soul that is at rest in Christ. It is the place of peace. Meekness springs from a heart of humility, radiating the fragrance of Christ.

  Matthew Henry

  Spring, Heart, Humility

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• The meek man will attain a place of soul rest. As he walks on in meekness he will be happy to let God defend him. The old struggle to defend himself is over. He has found the peace which meekness brings.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Letting Go, Struggle, Humility

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• Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Faces, Glances

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.83, Heron Dance Press

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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 others mistreat us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Should, Treats

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.181, NavPress

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• Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Men, Long Ago

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• Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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• Meekness is the mark of a man who has been mastered by God.

  Geoffrey B. Wilson

  Men, Mark, Has Beens

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• Nothing is more powerful than meekness. For as fire is extinguished by water, so a mind inflated by anger is subdued by meekness. By meekness we practice and make known our virtue, and also cause the indignation of our brother to cease, and deliver his mind from perturbation.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Brother, Powerful, Anger

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• Meekness enables us to be led by the Spirit of God.

  John Hagee

  Spirit, Spirit Of God

  John Hagee (1989). “Being Happy in an Unhappy World”

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• Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Humility, Men, Acceptable

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.183, Catholic Way Publishing

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• A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Humble, Humility, Men

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• As fire is not extinguished by fire, so anger is not conquered by anger, but is made even more inflamed. But meekness often subdues even the most beastly enemies, softens them and pacifies them.

  Tikhon of Zadonsk

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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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 responsibility.

  Vaclav Havel

  Lying, Hero, Heart

  International Herald Tribune, February 21, 1990.

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• Men sometimes speak as if humility and meekness would rob us of what is noble and bold and manlike. O that all would believe that this is the nobility of the kingdom of heaven, that this is the royal spirit that the King of heaven displayed, that this is Godlike, to humble oneself, to become the servant of all!

  Andrew Murray

  Kings, Believe, Humility

  Andrew Murray (2005). “Humility and Absolute Surrender”, p.20, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Meekness is power under control.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Warren W. Wiersbe (1992). “Wiersbe's Expository Outlines on the New Testament”, p.502, David C Cook

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• To men and women everywhere Jesus says, "Come unto me, and I will give you rest." The rest He offers is the rest of meekness, the blessed relief which comes when we accept ourselves for what we are and cease to pretend.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Blessed, Men

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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 cowardly. But a Christian is to be gentle and meek because those are Godlike virtues... We should never be afraid, therefore, that the gentleness of the Spirit means weakness of character. It takes strength, God's strength, to be truly gentle.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Character, Mean

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• Meekness is one of the brightest graces which can adorn the Christian character.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Character, Grace

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• The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man.

  Charles Wesley

  Christian, Men, Evil

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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 themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Ungrateful, Taste, Degrees

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• Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Courage, Strong, Revenge

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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, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness - in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Prayer, Opportunity, Long

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• A meek fellow ... is a real godsend in any gang.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Real, Gang, Meek

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• Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

  Vince Lombardi

  Humility, Sacrifice, Greatness

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