Meekness Quotes

Meekness is patient and labors to be happy under all circumstances. Meekness is always thankful and makes its own songs of happiness, making melody in the heart of God.

Ellen G White

How equable is the career of meekness! How easily sits upon the meek man the government of his passions! How gracefully does he sway his sceptre! He is not in perpetual danger of suffering from excess, he is not obliged unceasingly to watch, and curb, and rein in a wild and headstrong spirit; but his course through life is gentle and secure, as it tends to that peaceful bourne, where he will find quietness and assurance forever.

Joseph Stevens Buckminster

Blessed are the meek, for they are barricaded from the shots of the devil's artillery and the persecutions of this world by sacks of wool. They are like glass vessels packed in hay or straw to preserve them from jarring. Meekness is the strong shield by which the arrows of wrath are broken or turned aside.

Francisco De Osuna

But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

1 Peter 3:4

Meekness is power completely surrendered to God's control.

John Macarthur

Meekness is not a soft, yielding, natural disposition, nor a prudent bridling of a passionate nature; but it is humility applied to the world, not taking offense at the offenses of the world.

George A Edgar

Reason will be better spoken, and a righteous cause better pleaded, with meekness, than with passion; hard arguments do best with soft words.

Elias Lyman Magoon

Meekness is a grace which Jesus alone inculcated, and which no ancient philosopher seems to have understood or recommended.

Joseph Stevens Buckminster

The meek Christian is one who has learned at the school of Jesus Christ, to restrain unlawful anger, and to moderate lawful resentment. If he is endued with what is commonly called a good natural temper, he exercises this good temper from Christian motives; such as, the pardoning love of God, the command of the law, the example of Jesus Christ, who was meek and lowly. But though his natural temper should happen to be fiery and eager, he has found the virtue of that promise. "The wolf shall dwell with the lamb; the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox." He is not angry but on just occasions; and even when the occasion is just, his anger is kept under proper regulations.

William McEwen

The meek are strong in God's sight, for they are submissive to the divine will and thus enabled by God's might.

Wilson David

Meekness is the chief grace and perfection of the soul.

Lord Acton

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Matthew 5:5

This meekness is an ornament, that, like the Israelites' clothes in the wilderness, never waxes old, nor will ever go out of fashion while right reason and religion have any place in the world: all wise and good people will reckon those best drest that put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and walk with him in the white of meekness and innocency.

Matthew Henry

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Matthew 11:30

Meekness is imperfect, if it be not active and passive--if it will not enable us to subdue our own passions and resentments, as well as qualify us to bear the passions and resentments of others.

Rev W Lee

The meek are they who are gentle, humble, modest, simple in faith, patient under all injury, who set themselves to follow the precepts of the gospel and the example of the saints.

Cornelius A Lapide

True meekness exerts incredible power. Meekness is not weakness. Meekness is strength. It has softened hearts and toppled empires. It's a power that can't be countered.

Tompaul Wheeler

The law of meekness is: If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, not only give him drink, (which is an act of charity), but drink to him, in token of friendship, and true love, and reconciliation; and in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, not to consume him, but to melt and soften him, that he may be cast into a new mould.

Matthew Henry

Meekness...is a grace which receives little of the applauses of the world.

Joseph Stevens Buckminster

The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

Psalms 22:26

Meekness is His enabling strength to do what His Word prescribes. It is genuine, quiet strength comfortable with self by making peace with God.

Donald G Hanna

Meekness is a grace that cleaves the stock, and holds it open, that the word, as a shoot, may be grafted in; it breaks up the fallow ground, and makes it fit to receive the seed; captivates the high thoughts, and lays the soul like white paper under God's pen.

Matthew Henry

A graceful heart is a virtue of the meek.

Suzy Kassem

The meek are those who do not lift up nor cause their voice to be heard in the streets; who will not complain of injuries, nor cry aloud for the redress of their wrongs; but count it better to suffer than to contend.

Rev E Irving

The meek are those who yield to acts of wickedness, and do not resist evil, but overcome evil with good.

St Augustine

Meekness is not merely a matter of outward manner, but also, and still more, of inward spirit. A well-known hymn which inculcates the spirit of meekness tells us to "stay the angry blow", and of course it is right. But if we are to be truly meek we must not only "stay the angry blow", we must get into that state and condition in which we do not feel like doing it at all.

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Meekness is a pulling back of your own ego (humility) in such a way as to make the other (God, person, situation, etc.) more important or central to what is going on at the moment. Meekness is posturing yourself as a signpost for someone or something else: pointing the way.

N Thomas Johnson-Medland

Meekness is our strength. Meekness is our authority. Meekness is our power. Because it is the strength and power and authority of Christ! Self is gone--Christ reigns! In Him we live and move and have our very being.

John C Martin

Meekness, love, purity--these are the things that should magnify you in the eyes of all good men.

Joseph Smith

A meek man enjoys almost a perpetual Sabbath.

Philip Henry

Meekness is not weakness, but spiritual strength harnessed for service.

Joe Cothen

Meekness is really the power of self-control. And greater is he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

George A Edgar

We had long known the Lord without realizing that meekness and lowliness of heart should be the distinguishing feature of the disciple.

Andrew Murray

There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit.

John Wesley

Meekness is power under control.

Warren Wiersbe

The ceaseless chagrin of a self-centered life can be removed at once by learning Meekness and Lowliness of heart. He who learns them is forever proof against it. He lives henceforth a charmed life.

Henry Drummond

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

John Hagee

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

Charles Wesley

The meek are not those who are never at all angry, for such are insensible; but those who, feeling anger, control it, and are angry only when they ought to be. Meekness excludes revenge, irritability, morbid sensitiveness, but not self-defense, or a quiet and steady maintenance of right.

This grace of Meekness never goes alone, where this is there are other graces too.

Increase Mather

Meekness is when you are in a position of strength and power--yet you choose not to use that power against your opponent, your critic, your accuser, your persecutor.

Michael Youssef

Meekness is tender; consulting the feelings of others, and willing to bear much pain rather than inflict any.

There is nothing lost by meekness and yielding.

John Trapp

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

As lowliness of heart maketh a man highly in favor with God, so meekness of words maketh him to sink into the hearts of men.

Thomas Lushington

Meekness is a temper opposite to irritable; it is a grace commended by the Savior.

A Ritchie