#meek

I'm not meek at all. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#meek

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

#heart #human #human heart #human power #human world

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#humility #indeed #meekness #powers #spiritual

The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them. ↗

— John Strachan

#gentleness #had #hearts #left #meekness

That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#did #father #first #had #hand

One should preach not from one's rational mind but rather from the heart. Only that which is from the heart can touch another heart. One must never attack or oppose anyone. If he who preaches must tell people to keep away from a certain kind of evil, he must do so meekly and humbly, with fear of God. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#eastern-orthodoxy #fear-of-god #humility #meekness #preaching

If you can't pay your own way, then don't go." ~Billy Noel Meeks (1919-2011) ↗

— Billy Noel Meeks

#father-and-son #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

. . . meekness,love, purity, these are the things that should magnify us. ↗

— Joseph Smith Jr.

#magnify #meekness #purity #love

Why are all the truly orthodox Christians--the doctrinally minded, theologically sound ones--complete jerks? Why are nice, loving Christians typically wishy-washier than Charlie Brown? ↗

— Alexis Neal

#meekness #relationships #love

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

— J. Paul Getty

#earth #inherit #meek #mineral #rights