How To Use Meekness In A Sentence
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Ministers must be patient, bearing with evil, and in meekness instructing (v. 25) not only those who subject themselves, but those who oppose themselves.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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It is not fierceness and violence can cure their fierceness, but meekness and condescendency to follow their humours and soft dealing with them.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
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Shadow, with her veil drawn, follows Light in secret meekness, with her silent steps of love.
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Just as the uni- prefix implies arrogance, multi- implies meekness, requiring Clinton’s secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, to come up with a toughening modifier: “assertive multilateralism.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Perceive the meekness and gentleness of the camel's temper, he summon the courage to approach it.
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He does not come ostentatiously and with anger, but is incarnate through Mary, whose suppliant obedience also demonstrates meekness in a relatively obscure village.
Eric Simpson: The Meek Are Reconciled With The Earth: The Basis Of Christian Ecology
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As a babe is without malice negatively, so you must be positively and by actuation, that is, full of love and meekness; as the babe is unresisting, so must you be docile, and so on.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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As for me, though I was meekness itself, taking the most obscure position I could find, and remaining as absolutely motionless as possible, they eyed me with suspicion; from the first they "huffed" at me, and at this point began to squawk the moment
In Nesting Time
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With such sanctified meekness does the Incorruptible lift his seagreen cheek to the smiter; lift his thin voice, and with jesuitic dexterity plead, and prosper: asking at last, in a prosperous manner: "But what witnesses has the Citoyen Barbaroux to support his testimony?
The French Revolution
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She wore a humble white dress shirt and a white skirt, and carried herself with meekness and humility.
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What a beautiful mixture of dignity and meekness is this!
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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If only you had my meekness," Dürer wrote to Pirkheimer (set: p. 85), half in jest doubtless, but with profound truth: -- though the word meekness does not indeed cover the whole of what we feel made Dürer's most radical advantage over his friend; at other times we might call it naïvety, that sincerity of great and simple natures which can never be outflanked or surprised.
Albert Durer
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By meekness the Psalmist means, I suppose, little else than what we might call docility, of which the prime element is the submission of my own will to God's.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms
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_On the contrary, _ Seneca says (De Clementia ii, 5): "Every good man is conspicuous for his clemency and meekness.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Meekness is not weakness. It is power under control.
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But there was a lot of humility and meekness also.
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He had exhausted his powers of characteristic discrimination in the heads of the apostles; and in his attempt to give meekness to the countenance of Jesus, he sank into insipience.
The Life Studies And Works Of Benjamin West Esq
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Shadow, with her veil drawn, follows Light in secret meekness, with her silent steps of love.
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Resist not the weakness/Such strength is in meekness" goes the Song of Spirits in Prometheus Unbound (II. iii.93-4), and this message of humility might make resistance to available forms of violence and acquisitiveness sustainable over a long and healthy life.
Henry Salt on Shelley: Literary Criticism and Ecological Identity
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Meekness or teachableness enables us to be taught of God.
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They may call their lukewarmness charity, meekness, moderation, and a largeness of soul; it is nauseous to
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Every sign of meekness was eliminated as the frail child became the robust, headstrong youth.
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But he attributes any meekness to feelings of inferiority rather than superiority.
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For clemency, in mitigating punishment, "is guided by reason," according to Seneca (De Clementia ii, 5), and meekness, likewise, moderates anger according to right reason, as stated in _Ethic. _ iv, 5.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Never in history has human desire been so tamed into meekness.
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Both she and her son attracted far less vitriol from ancient historians than their immediate predecessors, though like Elagabalus the new emperor was said to be very much under the thumb of his mother.85 Such filial meekness earned Alexander the appellation in literary sources of Alexander Mameae, “Alexander, Son of Mamaea,” a reversal of the usual convention whereby a Roman man would be recognized by the name of his father.
Caesars’ Wives
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Hereupon are the elders of the church to judge by the rule of truth, in love and meekness, concerning their condition and meetness to be laid as living stones in the house of God; so as that they may, — (1.)
A Brief Instruction in the Worship of God
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In growing meekness Babbitt went on waiting till Hanson casually reappeared with a quart of gin — what is euphemistically known as a quart — in his disdainful long white hands.
Babbit
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This truly is an excercise in meekness and patience on my part.
Home Away From Home
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At such times she was very subdued in gentleness and in observance of Mr. Carlisle's pleasure; subdued to a meekness foreign to her natural mood, and which, generally, to tell the truth, was accompanied by a very unwonted sedateness of spirits also; something very like the sedateness of despair.
The Old Helmet
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Shadow, with her veil drawn, follows Light in secret meekness, with her silent steps of love.
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Shadow, with her veil drawn, follows Light in secret meekness, with her silent steps of love.
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We must now await in meekness the storm that will follow their receipt of
London: Saturday, October 18, 1862
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He does not come ostentatiously and with anger, but is incarnate through Mary, whose suppliant obedience also demonstrates meekness in a relatively obscure village.
Eric Simpson: The Meek Are Reconciled With The Earth: The Basis Of Christian Ecology
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The team dispersed in ignominious defeat, and it was not until after dark that the dogs came sneaking back, one by one, by meekness and humility signifying their fealty to White
The Love-Master
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If any man shall fall by occasion, to restore such a one with the spirit of meekness, by all fair means, gentle admonitions; but if that will not take place, Post unam et alteram admonitionem haereticum devita, he must be excommunicate, as
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Just as the uni- prefix implies arrogance, multi- implies meekness, requiring Clinton’s secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, to come up with a toughening modifier: “assertive multilateralism.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Word of God, instead of allowing it to penetrate more and more the inner spiritual nature: he therefore counsels them to purify themselves from all that is evil, all excrescences of the inward life which passion nourishes, and in meekness to suffer the word implanted in their hearts to take deeper and deeper root therein.
The Scriptural Expositions of Dr. Augustus Neander: II. The Epistle of James, Practically Explained.
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Jesus taught meekness and meekness is despised as a vice; he taught the superiority of the spiritual over the material world, and we have society built on the assumption that might makes right; he taught love and the world is corroded with hate; and our admiration goes out to those who can make others serve them; he taught poverty, and the very church which he founded has grown rich on the fruit of sweat shops and prostitution.
Aleta Dey
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Among them, in the first place, is required a due preparation of soul, by humility, meekness, and teachableness.
Pneumatologia
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Not sharp and vivid like that of her father, but dim and nebulous was the picture she shaped of her mother — a saint's head in an aureole of sweetness and goodness and meekness, and withal, shot through with a hint of reposeful determination, of will, stubborn and unobtrusive, that in life had expressed itself mainly in resignation.
Jack London's Story - Moon Face: Planchette pg 3 of 3
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What is inherited is not the sickness but sickliness: the lack of strength to resist the danger of infections, etc., the broken resistance; morally speaking, resignation and meekness in face of the enemy.
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Patience can be meekness, patience can be too ready acceptance or passivity.
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Her motherlessness plays no small role in this; her obstinate self-sufficiency evidently compensates for her father's meekness and her mother's absence.
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And hereby he teaches us that, in reproving others, as we should be faithful, so we should also be gentle, and endeavour to restore them in the spirit of meekness, ch. vi.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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As to particular persons, that follow Christ in meekness, and in fear, and in much trembling, observe, [1.]
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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In chapter 2, if and when we have doctrinal apostasy, we must know the truth and proclaim it in meekness and in power.
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The team dispersed in ignominious defeat, and it was not until after dark that the dogs came sneaking back, one by one, by meekness and humility signifying their fealty to White Fang.
The Love-Master
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Cowardice is called meekness; to temporize is to be charitable and reverent; to speak truth, and shame the devil, is to offend weak brethren, who, somehow or other, never complain of their weak consciences till you hit them hard.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
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I'd also have to say, just to be a nit, that if you are committed enough to the life of the imagination to be a writer -- a non-didactic writer for children, though still a political one -- then perhaps this implies some sort of faith in meekness ...?
"Crap, here comes Teacher!"
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Many of us were frustrated by what seemed like the complacency of older gays, just as they had once been frustrated by the meekness of an even earlier generation of homophiles.
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Of all bores in the world, your quizzing, carping, text‑torturing sceptic is the worst - next to mule driving; and those confounded mules would bore a two inch auger hole through the meekness of Moses himself, were he their master.
Life in the Rocky Mountains
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They have torn the soul of Christ into silly strips, labelled egoism and altruism, and they are equally puzzled by His insane magnificence and His insane meekness.
Orthodoxy
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Every dog in office is obeyed with such unquestioning meekness, that every dog in office is tempted to become a cur.
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And as wisdom will evidence itself in meekness, so meekness will be a great friend to wisdom; for nothing hinders the regular apprehension, the solid judgment, and impartiality of thought, necessary to our acting wisely, so much as passion.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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There is need of a great deal of meekness in reproving those who deserve reproof.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Since, then, clemency "is leniency of a superior in inflicting punishment on an inferior," as Seneca states (De Clementia ii, 3), and vengeance is taken by means of punishment, it would seem that clemency and meekness are the same.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
