QUOTATION: Meekness

Meekness, the greatest of virtues, is reckoned among the beatitudes. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall possess the land.” For that blessed land, the heavenly Jerusalem, is not the spoil of warriors who have conquered, but the hoped-for inheritance of the meek, who patiently endure the evils of this life.

--St. Basil the Great

QUOTATION: Fight One's Own Weaknesses

Against one's innate misery, against that weakness it entails, which mounts not upward, which incessantly falls back on self, neither struggle nor violence must be employed, but the humility and the patience of meekness. One must accept his state just as it is, and take it to God in the same way. You are weak in mind, and still more in heart? Offer that to God. Otherwise, what will you do? We cannot kill ourselves to change ourselves. In vain, will you be angry against yourself and vex yourself for not being perfect.

--St. Peter Julian Eymard

QUOTATION: Meekness

Sanctity that is not meek is not true.

--St. Peter Julian Eymard

QUOTATION: Meekness

We must besides practise meekness towards ourselves. It is a delusion of the devil, to make us consider it a virtue to be angry with ourselves for committing some fault; far from it, it is a trick of the enemy to keep us in a state of trouble, that so we may be unfit for the performance of any good.

--St. Alphonsus Liguori, The Holy Eucharist

QUOTATION: The Weak in Virtue

Never be severe in respect to those whose virtue is weak ; the defiance we might arouse would produce more evil than any good results we could hope for from a severe reprimand.

--St. Ignatius Loyola

QUOTATION: Humility and Meekness

Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men.

--St Francis De Sales

QUOTATION: Meekness

Nothing is more powerful than meekness. For as fire is extinguished by water, so a mind inflated by anger is subdued by meekness. By meekness we practice and make known our virtue, and also cause the indignation of our brother to cease, and deliver his mind from perturbation.

--St. John Chrysostom