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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.

    Jesus   Men   Long Ago  
  • Let them push you, but do not push; Let them crucify you, but do not crucify. Let them insult, but do not insult. Let them slander, but do not slander. Be meek, and do not be zealous in evil.

  • The meek are positive and often colorful characters. They are not self-assertive nor self-seeking, to be sure, but rather they are unselfish and uncomplaining, genuinely interested in the welfare of others, creating opportunities to be of service to them, submissive in the face of injuries and insults, silent in the accidents and adversities of life, and bearing with equanimity the infamies and injustices heaped upon them.

  • Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us to the equally restrictive role of sweet, meek, and weak.

    Sweet   Men   Feminist  
    "Just as Fierce". www.motherjones.com. November/December 1994.
  • I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

  • 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, Editor Harper's Magazine The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

  • I wouldn't mind gigging around the same era as Jesus, after he gives his speech about the meek and how blessed they are and all that type of bullshit, going up there and doing a flat 20 [minutes]. I reckon I'd have better stagecraft and presence than Jesus. Yea, I'm a better stand-up comedian than Jesus, so I reckon I could go on after him.

    Source: manofmany.com
  • The meek may inherit the earth, but they wont get the ball from me.

    May   Balls   Earth  
  • Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.

    The American Scholar sec. 2 (1837)
  • The least known among the virtues and also the most misunderstood is the virtue of humility. Yet, it is the very groundwork of Christianity. Humility is a grace of the soul that cannot be expressed in words and is only known by experience. It is an unspeakable treasure of God, and only can be called the gift of God. Learn, He said, not from angels, not from men, not from books; but learn from My presence, light, and action within you, that I am meek and humble of heart, and you shall find rest to your souls.

    Book   Heart   Humble  
  • Spread abroad the name of Jesus in humility and with a meek heart; show him your feebleness, and he will become your strength.

    Jesus   Humility   Heart  
  • Be brave if you lose and meek if you win.

    Golf   Winning   Bravery  
    Harvey Penick (2011). “And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend: Furthur Reflections of a Grown Caddie”, p.108, Simon and Schuster
  • LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.

    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
  • For He is in the midst of us day and night [in the Blessed Sacrament]; He dwells in us with the fullness of grace and truth. He raises the level of morals, fosters virtue, comforts the sorrowful, strengthens the weak and stirs up all those who draw near to Him to imitate Him, so that they may learn from his example to be meek and humble of heart, and to seek not their own interests but those of God.

    Blessed   Heart   Humble  
  • But when a snowflake, brave and meek,Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,It starts-"How warm and soft the day!""'T is summer!" and it melts away.

    Summer   Light   Brave  
    Mary Mapes Dodge (1894). “When Life is Young: A Collection of Verse for Boys and Girls”
  • And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses Deep.

    Heart   Kissing   Night  
    Song: A Thousand Kisses Deep, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001
  • Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

    Sweet   Humble   Mind  
    Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950”, p.199, University of Missouri Press
  • 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 corner. It has even been known to wear a moustache.

    Life   Justice   May  
    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.125, University of Georgia Press
  • The new nuns don't know that they're 'supposed' to be meek and submissive, and so in many ways they believe they can do anything, because they've seen the earlier ones do it. In this way, there's nothing for them to doubt.

    Believe   Doubt   Way  
    Source: studybuddhism.com
  • Meek Walton's heavenly memory.

    William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.306
  • 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 do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive.

    Self   Earth   Modesty  
  • The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life: In himself, nothing; In God, everything. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring.

    Humility   Caring   Men  
  • The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

    Men   Soul   Proud  
    Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.47, Sahitya Akademi
  • The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.

    Bags   Punching   Tough  
    Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.20, Criss Jami
  • Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.

    Vanity   Earth   Evening  
    William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.267
  • Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace. In its very embers and smoulderings, they nourish that fatal fire, and half-pay officers, as the priests of Mars, yet guard the temple, though no god be there.

    War   Heart   Army  
    Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war”, p.247
  • If the Savior were among us today, we would find Him where He always was-ministering to the meek, the downcast, the humble, the distressed, and the poor in spirit. During this Christmas season and always, may we give to Him by loving as He loves.

    Humble   Giving   May  
  • The meek shall inherit the earth - a 6 foot plot above them.

    Feet   Plot   Earth  
  • I'd rather play an ass-kicking destroyer or a super strong spy or agent than some meek, vulnerable character.

    Strong   Character   Spy  
    Source: www.movieweb.com
  • There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker.

    Wise   Jobs   Men  
    Richard Hooker (1830). “The Ecclesiastical polity and other works of Richard Hooker: with his life by I. Walton. To which are added, the 'Christian letter' to mr. Hooker; and dr. Covel's 'Just and temperate defence' in reply to it [&c.] an intr. and notes by B. Hanbury”, p.67
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