Meekness enables us to be led by the Spirit of God. — John Hagee
The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men. — Matthew Henry
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
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
Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers. — Sivananda
Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers. — Swami Sivananda
The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man. — Charles Wesley
Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness. — Henry David Thoreau
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. — Don Marquis
The greatest strength a man can achieve is gentleness. — Monty Roberts
Humility is the ultimate standard of greatness in the Kingdom of God. — Mike Bickle
Be brave if you lose and meek if you win. — Harvey Penick
The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek. — Ramakrishna
Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness. — Democritus
Short Meekness Quotes
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. — Izaak Walton
Who does not live to serve does not serve to live. — Mexican Proverbs
If you can learn to live with indignities in life, you can go far. — Michael J. Massimino
If I had my way, I would not want influence over anyone but my little family. — Enoch Adeboye
I don’t care about anyone not liking me, you b***hes barely like yourselves. — Cardi B
You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle. — Shannon Alder
The best leaders know when to lead — and when not to. — Rand Fishkin
A good sportsman always puts the best face on defeat. — Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan Aly Khan
Give me 30 minutes rest, little drink of water. Give me 30 minutes, and I can fight with anybody. — Khabib Nurmagomedov
I’m just a low-key guy. — Kawhi Leonard
Meekness Image Quotes
Humility And Meekness Quotes
The best leaders are constantly learning, curious about where they made mistakes and actively looking for areas where they might have it wrong. — Jeff Booth
I have learned that the biggest stars and the greatest players are the most humble ones, the ones who respect people the most. — Kylian Mbappe
You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great. — Matshona Dhliwayo
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
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 obeys everyone, fears to offend anyone, is at peace with everyone, is kind with all. — Thomas of Villanova
Evil and faults are corrected by good, by love, kindness, meekness, humility, and patience. — John of Kronstadt
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. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
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
To hope and trust in the Lord requires faith, patience, humility, meekness, long-suffering, keeping the commandments and enduring to the end. — Robert D. Hales
Is not our Lord as meek and humble in the Blessed Sacrament as He was during His life on earth? Is He not always the Good Shepherd, the Divine Consoler, the Changeless Friend? Happy the soul that knows how to find Jesus in the Holy Eucharist, and in the Eucharist all things! — Peter Julian Eymard
The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers. — William Penn
That holy, humble, meek, modest, retiring Form, sometimes called the Spirit of Prayer, has been dragged from the closet, and so rudely handled by some of her professed friends, that she has not only lost all her wonted loveliness, but is now stalking the street, in some places, stark mad. — Asahel Nettleton
I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted. — Samuel Butler
The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breeds pride and arrogance. — Eric Hoffer
Godly Meekness Quotes
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
The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek. — N. T. Wright
Never look down on anyone, most especially one who has God. — Enoch Adeboye
You touch me, I will report you to God. You touch my wife, I will deal with you personally. — Enoch Adeboye
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. — Rabindranath Tagore
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
It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the highest beauty, that which is imperishable. No outward adorning can compare in value or loveliness with that "meek and quiet spirit." — Ellen G. White
There is only one safeguard against error, and that is to be established in the faith; and for that, there has to be prayerful and diligent study, and a receiving with meekness the engrafted Word of God. Only then are we fortified against the attacks of those who assail us. — Arthur W. Pink
When we, by the working of mercy and grace, be made meek and mild, we are fully safe; suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. — Julian of Norwich
How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive him still, The dear Christ enters in. — Phillips Brooks
Christian Quotes
Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge. — Charles Schumer
A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ. — Jonathan Edwards
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle
Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink. — Dwight L. Moody
A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps. — Saint Augustine
Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition. — Immortal Technique
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I don't give a damn what queers do, and don't give a damn what Christians do. Just get the hell out of my way because I want to live my life and I don't want the government sucking 60% of my wages off my ass. — Alex Jones
If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake. — Ruth Graham
Meekness Of Heart Quotes
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
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls. — Bible
The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence. — Ann Radcliffe
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
We may make an oratory of our heart wherein to retire from time to time to converse with Him in meekness, humility, and love. Every one is capable of such familiar conversation with God, some more, some less. He knows what we can do. Let us begin, then. — Brother Lawrence
The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Spread abroad the name of Jesus in humility and with a meek heart; show him your feebleness, and he will become your strength. — Thomas Merton
The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them. — John Strachan
Just because God is God, just because Christ is Christ, they cannot do other than care for us and bless us and help us if we will but come unto them, approaching their throne of grace in meekness and lowliness of heart. They can't help but bless us. They have to. It is their nature. — Jeffrey R. Holland
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. — Herman Melville
Wise Quotes
Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself — Rumi
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. — Charles Spurgeon
A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. — Claude Levi-Strauss
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. — Albert Einstein
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. — Helen Rowland
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything. — African Proverbs
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind. — Albert Schweitzer
Meek Inherit Quotes
The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth! — Mother Jones
The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars. — Peter Diamandis
It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it. — Kin Hubbard
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known. — W. E. B. Du Bois
The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it. — Jackie Vernon
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. — Dean Koontz
What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians? — Robert Orben
My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths. — Harlan Ellison
In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does. — Barbara Corcoran
Meek Inherit The Earth Quotes
The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard. — Robin Williams
We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House. — F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
The meek may inherit the earth, but they wont get the ball from me. — Charles Barkley
The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. — Mark Twain
The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me. — Cassandra Clare
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. — Jesus Christ
Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota. — Garrison Keillor
You know that passage in the Bible that says, “And the meek shall inherit the Earth”? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, “And the geek shall inherit the Earth. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop. — John Green
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. — Maya Angelou
Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in tough situations; and temperance is love in training. — Dwight L. Moody
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
Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air. — Alexander Smith
Those of us who ask little of life, get little. Those who ask much, get much, but those who ask for too much get nothing. — Thomas Phelps
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
I’m trying to see what way I could lead so when the opportunity comes, it won’t just hit me in the face. — Kawhi Leonard
Whenever you find it difficult to obey those over you, whether you like it or not, you are guilty of pride. — Enoch Adeboye
You have to punch hard for knockouts, and to beat me, you have to knock me out. — Khabib Nurmagomedov
I’ve always been laid back, go with the flow. — Sadie Sink
I don’t like to bring attention to myself. I don’t like to make a scene. — Kawhi Leonard
It taught me not to give up on people until I have exhausted every opportunity to train them and help them grow. — Michael Abrashoff
It’s become easier to speak up for myself. — Sadie Sink
Study hard. Understand not only the questions, but the questioner. Know how best to articulate the answers, but do it with humility, because ultimately the answer is in a person, the person of Christ, not in an argument. So, do your work and know how to present the answer, but do it with gentleness and meekness. — Ravi Zacharias
Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that they manipulate the world by pussy power and gentle cajolery are fools. It is slavery to have to adopt such tactics. — Germaine Greer
I usually feel that I prefer to hide from people. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
Even when you realize that the one before you is an enemy and must be treated sternly, do not hurt with words. — R.K. Narayan
Know your weaknesses in your business and in life and start fortifying against them. Be prepared and protect yourself. — Russell Brunson
For me, playing simply is dribbling. For me, playing one or two touches is harder. Playing simply is the most difficult thing. — Paul Pogba
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