Meek Quotes

• Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

  Langston Hughes

  Sweet, Humble, Mind

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950”, p.199, University of Missouri Press

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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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• 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

  Humility, Caring, Men

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• 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

  Humble, Long, Use

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”

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• What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?

  Robert Orben

  What If, Religion, Earth

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• The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!

  Mother Jones

  Earth, Militant

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• 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

  Heart, Blessing, Heaven

  Phillips Brooks, H. L. S., L. H. S. (1892). “Phillips Brooks Year Book: Selections from the Writings of the Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks”

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• The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

  Mark Twain

  Blessed, Earth

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.146, 谷月社

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• God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

  Izaak Walton

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Heart

  Izaak Walton (2013). “The Complete Angler”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

  Don Marquis

  Bible, Jesus, Humble

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• And the meek shall inherit the earth.

  Geddy Lee

  Ties, Horizon, Earth

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• 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

  Taken, Humility, Humble

  William Penn (1863). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life”, p.63

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• Be brave if you lose and meek if you win.

  Harvey Penick

  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

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• Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.

  Vera Brittain

  Possession, Profession

  "Married Love". Poems of the War and After, 1934.

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• 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

  Men, Design, Gentle

  Matthew Henry (2016). “Bible commentary - Gospel of Matthew”, p.142, Bible Study Books

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• It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.

  Kin Hubbard

  Fun, Long, Watches

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• A word to the wise to all the children of the twentieth century, whether their concern be pediatrics or geriatrics, whether they crawl on hands and knees and wear diapers or walk with a cane and comb their beards. There's a wondrous magic to Christmas, and there's a special power reserved for little people. In short, there's nothing mightier than the meek, and a merry Christmas to each and all.

  Rod Serling

  Wise, Children, Merry Christmas

  "The Twilight Zone: The Night of the Meek". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

  J. Paul Getty

  Funny, Business, Humor

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• 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

  Believe, Land, Earth

  1924 The Gift of Black Folk, ch.9.

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• The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Fire, Steel

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• The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

  Isaiah

  Years, Liberty, Anointing

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• The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.

  Ramakrishna

  Motivational, Tree, Wish

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• 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

  Wrath, Grace, Soul

  Julian of Norwich (2007). “Revelations of Divine Love”, p.89, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Men, Knights

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• The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.

  Indira Gandhi

  Peace, One Day, Earth

  Indira Gandhi (1983). “Statements on Foreign Policy, May-December, 1983”

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