Thus is a heavy premium placed upon A blind obedience and servility; And high position hardly can be won Except by meekness and docility: By meekness where assertion would be right; By weak docility where should be might.
The parson replies, with much meekness of manner, that business is not so good as it was, planters having got it into their heads that sermons can be got at a very low figure.
The wise man in the spectacles--his voice soft and persuasive, and his aspect meekness itself--would like to know if any one present be inclined to offer a remark.
But now again the damnation cry is withdrawn, there is a subduedmeekness in your demeanour, you are now once more harmless as a lamb.
You might as well tell me that they imitate Christ in His meekness and humility.
Beshrew me, if my wife and thee could not make exchange of some portion of her spirit and thy meekness to the advantage of both.
So thoroughly good is meekness that even in such works of anger it remains, nay, it torments the heart most sorely when it must be angry and severe.
Dissatisfaction and resentment overwhelm you in order that they may show you how full of anger and wickedness you are, that you may be admonished to strive after meekness and to drive out anger.
For all thy meekness and thy praying and thy almsgiving, God knows it was an ill day when I set eyes on that fair face of thine!
And with a fearless meekness she walked before them with her little babe in her arms into the chamber of agony.
Meekness was never a distinguishing characteristic of his nature; and attack invariably stung him into defiance or counter-attack.
I admired the fortitude and patience with which she bore her burden, yet it did seem to me quite as much Spartan endurance as Christian meekness or acceptance of the will of God.
Enid” is not a gentler being than “Elaine,” yet her meekness is finely contrasted with the latter’s emotional nature.
At twelve years old she was married to Denis, King of Portugal, to whom she was not only a most faithful wife, but whom she succeeded, by her meekness and silent example, in winning back from his sinful courses.
She took her parcel with that involuntary meekness which the proudest learn before the matchless audacity of youthful ignorance when it fairly asserts itself, and passed out of the store to her waiting carriage.
After that recent violence, this almost dumb meekness and awaiting my judgment.
Towers are for the defence of the helpless, not of that invulnerable meekness and strength.
I desire that you may have the meekness of Moses, the piety of David, and the wisdom of Solomon.
But they are fewer in number, and seem to have attained to greater Meekness and conquest of passions than any of the rest.
The ceaseless chagrin of a self-centered life can be removed at once by learning meekness and lowliness of heart.
I had discarded, to some extent, the Christian doctrines of meekness and humility.
If any one, through error or evil disposition, should do me wrong, help me to bear the trial with Christian meekness and patience.
Let us take our lot with meekness then, and learn in all things to say to our Heavenly Father, "Thy will be done.
If people oppose it, misrepresent it, or ridicule it, then state it again at the proper time, with becoming meekness and gentleness, and then commit it to the care of its great Patron.
And this was a man remarkable, in general, for his meekness and gentleness.
I never forgot the conduct of that dear good man, and his Christian meekness and forbearance had a good effect on my heart.
Meekness which is synonymous with pusillanimity is not the meekness which develops into true religious feeling.
Meekness that means the abandonment of right for the sake of peace is a crime.
Your kind of meekness isn't the kind that inherits the earth, though," retorted Toppleton.
Meekness that subverts self-respect is an offence against society.
Verily I scented the fragrance ofmeekness and humbleness from the orchard of the meanings of thy letter and was caused to rejoice, smile and be made glad that God hath made thee humble and submissive to His beloved.
I received thy recent letter and rejoiced in spirit at its interesting contents which indicated thy arising for the service of the Kingdom of god, servitude unto His beloved ones and meekness and lowliness to His chosen ones.
Verily, I received thy letter*** and was informed of its meanings and contents which indicated thine humbleness before God and thy meekness to His great realm of might.
Speak of my servitude unto God, of my humbleness and submissiveness to the Beloved of God, and of my evanescence, nothingness and utter meekness to the Threshold of Baha’.
Grow in humility and meekness daily, until thou attainest eternal glory and everlasting grace.
By good deeds, pure lives, humility and meeknessbe a lesson for others.
Although they lift up the head of pride, show thou greater humility and meekness and treat them with the utmost submission and lowliness.
Indeed, to the latter circumstance might be owing that meekness of spirit which gained him such universal popularity; for those men are apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
The Judges were Sir Matthew Hale and Mr. Justice Twisden; and a remarkable contrast appeared between the well-known meeknessof the one, and fury of the other.
He was afterwards ordained priest, and was distinguished by his moderation and meekness of disposition, and by his charity towards strangers and the poor.
And this latter remark applied not only to the meeknesswhich is easily maintained because it is not tried, but much more to that which bears the test of sharp and continuous contradictions, and is never found to fail.
The perfect control over them which resulted in her admirable meekness and forbearance was the reward of her fidelity in the hour of the conflict.
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