What a beautiful mixture of dignity and meekness is this!. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
This truly is an excercise in meekness and patience on my part. From Wordnik.com. [Home Away From Home] Reference
We must now await in meekness the storm that will follow their receipt of. From Wordnik.com. [London: Saturday, October 18, 1862] Reference
Pam’s meekness is an integral part of the story and always has been. From Wordnik.com. ['The Office' recap: Do not test my politeness | EW.com] Reference
Such as oppose themselves are to be instructed in meekness, for our Lord is meek and lowly (Matt. xi. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
The state of mind which is described as meekness, or quietness of spirit, is characterized in a high degree by inward harmony. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Strength for Daily Needs] Reference
I before observed, that charity bears the ill nature and injuries of men, and in this view is called meekness, gentleness, &c. From Wordnik.com. [A Charity Sermon. First Delivered in Salisbury, July 28; And Afterwards in Other Places in Rowan, and the Counties Adjoining; Particularly at Sugar's Creek, in Mecklenburg County, at the Opening of the Synod of the Carolinas, October 2: And Last, at the Meeting of the Hon. the General Assembly of North Carolina in Fayetteville, December, 1793. By the Rev. Samuel E. M'Corkle, D. D. Pastor of the Church at Thyatira and Salisbury in Rowan County, North-Carolina] Reference
This all hints at a larger cultural laziness, the kind of meekness that allows bad things to happen on our watch. From Wordnik.com. [Art review: 'Patrick McDonough: reck room' at Flashpoint] Reference
What He gives us we may in "meekness" and "lowliness" continually re-find. From Wordnik.com. [Brooks by the Traveller's Way] Reference
Spiritual weapons such as meekness, humility, and God-given spiritual strength are firmly established by Love's infinite law. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference
(such as meekness of spirit) but the civic virtues. From Wordnik.com. [Newsstand] Reference
"meekness" of Moses the Law-giver, which commentators seem to think has been foisted into Numbers xii. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
I can not submit with meekness to injustice and wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Is faith, and meekness: and he will fill up his treasures. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
It's not about meekness, but it's about power and authority. From Wordnik.com. [Gay Sex Scandal Lands Black Church Under Scrutiny] Reference
NOW I, Paul, myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of. From Wordnik.com. [The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The common English version, corrected by the final committee of the American Bible Union.] Reference
Humility in this case is not to be confused with meekness or passivity. From Wordnik.com. [Obama’s Lincoln] Reference
He was doubtless feigning meekness, hoping for an opportunity to escape. From Wordnik.com. [Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method] Reference
Let him shew, by a good contestation, his work in the meekness of wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 66: James The Challoner Revision] Reference
Let him show, out of his good deportment, his works in meekness of wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The common English version, corrected by the final committee of the American Bible Union.] Reference
Receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. From Wordnik.com. [An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism] Reference
My son, keep thy soul in meekness, and give it honour according to its desert. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
I don't understand Ideala's meekness; it amounts to weakness sometimes, I think. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
My son, do thy works in meekness, and thou shalt be beloved above the glory of men. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
This reply, uttered with hypocritical meekness, went through Griffith like a knife. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
Rebecca's face flamed again; but she took the suggestion, after all, with some meekness. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
Because of truth and meekness and justice: and thy right hand shall conduct thee wonderfully. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
Let us examine him by outrages and tortures, that we may know his meekness, and try his patience. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 25: Wisdom The Challoner Revision] Reference
Nothing wrong with meekness, of course, as long as it's not overdone (the same goes for confidence). From Wordnik.com. [Bush of Galilee] Reference
But it's hard to avoid the conclusion that Bush's foreign policy today betrays a little ... meekness. From Wordnik.com. [Bush of Galilee] Reference
But meekness and beatitude aren't what come to mind when Ross describes Shawn's treatment of his wife. From Wordnik.com. [A New Yorker Love Story] Reference
We should all strive for humility and meekness, for obedience without question: such is the perfection of angels. From Wordnik.com. [Old clothes, bread, cream and butter.] Reference
In the first years after the nation's surrender in 1945, many of its citizens found this imposed meekness hard to take. From Wordnik.com. [World View: Hideaki Kase] Reference
Virtue came to mean not energy and exuberance but prudence, thrift, meekness, chastity, temperance, industriousness and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Ideas for modern living: virtue] Reference
Marillac leaned toward him with the meekness of a lamb that presents his head to the butcher, and sympathetically pressed his hands. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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