meekness, n.All

Meekness is not weakness.

Meekness is the bridle of anger.

Meekness is defined as uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Meekness is soothing a tiger by allowing oneself to be eaten.

Meekness is not weakness.

Meekness is a scandal — To require of strength that it should not be strength, that it should not show itself as a strenuous wish to overpower, a wish to overthrow, a wish to be master, a thirst for enemies and antagonisms and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.

Meekness is the characteristic of the people who are going to inherit the earth and pay off the mortgage we leave them.

Meekness is the grace which, from beneath God’s footstool, lifts up a candid and confiding eye, accepting God’s smile of Fatherly affection, and adoring those perfections which it cannot comprehend.