Top 100 The Meek Quotes
#1. Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Don Marquis
#2. My father believes with his entire soul that the meek shall inherit the earth. My children will inherit the earth but they will not be meek.
Allan Dare Pearce
#3. A graceful heart is a virtue of the meek.
Suzy Kassem
#4. The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.
Cassandra Clare
#5. In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
Barbara Corcoran
#6. What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?
Robert Orben
#7. The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
Mother Jones
#8. And the meek shall inherit the earth,
Geddy Lee
#9. What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected. Constable Visit had told him the meek would inherit it, and what had the poor devils done to deserve that?
Terry Pratchett
#11. Spare the meek, but subdue the arrogant.
Virgil
#12. Oh, he understood very well that for the meek soul of a simple Russian, exhausted by grief and hardship and, above all, by constant injustice and sin, his own or the world's, there was no stronger need than to find a holy shrine or a saint to prostrate himself before and to worship.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#13. The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty
#14. The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
Indira Gandhi
#15. The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule.
Patti Smith
#16. Ah, the meek. Playing the long game. Sneaky bastards.
Denise Mina
#17. We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.
F. E. Smith, 1st Earl Of Birkenhead
#18. Though the meek shall inherit the earth, but don't forget:
The poor are the ones who inherit the debt.
Kelvin Mercer
#19. Let the meek have the kingdom of heaven. The strong shall rule on earth.
Jennifer Armintrout
#20. Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.
Ralph Chaplin
#21. Arrest the meek! Reward the obnoxious!
Ann Nocenti
#22. The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.
Jackie Vernon
#23. Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive.
Dean Koontz
#24. There is so little of the meek and lowly Lamb of God in those who are called by His name. Let us consider how our lack of love, indifference to the needs and feelings of
Andrew Murray
#25. As water downs ships but upholds leaves,
and as fires burn cities but refines gold,
so do life's troubles propel the meek to greatness
and the proud to ruin.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#27. Everything that happens to the poor, the meek, the desolate, the mourners, the despised, happens to Christ.
Thomas Merton
#28. The information age has been driven and dominated by technopreneurs. We now have to apply these technologies in saving lives, improving livelihoods and lifting millions of people out of squalor, misery and suffering. In other words, our focus must now move from the geeks to the meek.
Arthur C. Clarke
#29. There is not justice in this world. Father, forgive me wherever you are, but this world has brought one vile abomination after another down on the heads of the gentle, and I'll not live to see the meek inherit anything.
Barbara Kingsolver
#30. The meek don't inherit shit. Earth belongs to the wolves.
Hugh Howey
#31. And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.
William C. Bryant
#32. And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses Deep.
Leonard Cohen
#33. Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.
Alice Cary
#34. Our so-called leaders speak
With words they try to jail you
The subjugate the meek
But it's the rhetoric of failure
Sting
#35. Though all the guns be silenced,
each soldier in his home,
There is no peace till Love comes,
till the meek may safely roam.
C. P. Klapper
#36. The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men.
Matthew Henry
#37. When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.
Vance Havner
#38. You must cultivate poverty of spirit. Blessed are the meek. She didn't go on to say anything about inheriting the earth.
Margaret Atwood
#39. Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace. In its very embers and smoulderings, they nourish that fatal fire, and half-pay officers, as the priests of Mars, yet guard the temple, though no god be there.
Herman Melville
#40. The age of the insect, he thinks. The meek truly shall inherit the earth.
Chuck Wendig
#41. Haven't you ever heard that modesty is an attractive trait?"
"Only from ugly people," Jace confided. "The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me." He winked at the girls, who giggled and hid behind their hair.
Cassandra Clare
#42. Let the meek inherit the earth
they have it coming to them.
James Thurber
#43. If Timlin's right, he thought, the bloodsuckers will inherit the earth instead of the meek. If they can find any blood to suck, that is.
Stephen King
#45. Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.
John Green
#46. The Good Book says that the meek shall inherit the earth and I expect that's probably the truth. I aint no freethinker, but I'll tell you what. I'm a long way from bein convinced that it's all that good a thing.
Cormac McCarthy
#47. Pride, I suppose, is the most treacherous of virtues. The Christians call it a sin, but no poet sings of men who have no pride. Christians say the meek will inherit the earth, but the meek inspire no songs.
Bernard Cornwell
#48. The only way the meek will ever inherit the earth is when they get ground into it by the heel of someone else's boot.
Dan Groat
#49. Beware the meek ... for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth.
Roger Zelazny
#50. But would the perpetual flux and reflux of individualism reduce all personality to the level of mass consciousness? Would American culture remain neither bourgeois nor proletarian, but infantile? Would the moron, instead of the meek, inherit democracy?
Ellen Glasgow
#51. Ghetto Fiction with a twist take a peak it's the shit. Not for the timid or the meek don't be scared take a peek...
Cynthia Rubio
#52. True leadership is often the mantle of the meek, who are rarely are prepared for such responsibility; which builds character in those who embrace it.
M.J. Stoddard
#53. Fuck the meek. The despised will inherit the earth!
Victor LaValle
#54. The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#55. It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.
Kin Hubbard
#56. And yet you're a knight. (Rowena)
Because I have seen the great evil that is done on this earth to those who can't fight for themselves. The meek only inherit the grave while the strong go on until someone stronger stops them. (Stryder)
Kinley MacGregor
#57. I am pride! Let the meek have their inheritance - I'd rather have eternity in shadows than divine bliss at the price you ask.
Mark Lawrence
#58. Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.
Garrison Keillor
#59. Love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.
Ann Radcliffe
#60. Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.
A.W. Tozer
#61. You know that passage in the Bible that says, "And the meek shall inherit the Earth"? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, "And the geek shall inherit the Earth.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#62. I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.
Maya Angelou
#63. Revenge did that to a person; it caused even the insecure and the meek to take foolhardy chances. After a while it became a way of life; the risks felt as natural as drawing a breath.
Alice Hoffman
#64. Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.
Bob Edwards
#65. In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of AK-47s.
Ian McDonald
#66. It was hard to be human. Hell, it was hard to live at all. Life was definitely not for the meek.
Everytime something seemed to go right, at least 3 or 4 things had to go wrong. It was just the law of nature.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#67. If the Savior were among us today, we would find Him where He always was-ministering to the meek, the downcast, the humble, the distressed, and the poor in spirit. During this Christmas season and always, may we give to Him by loving as He loves.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#68. The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.
N. T. Wright
#69. The meek shall indeed inherit the earth. They have the power to act rationally instead of reacting emotionally.
David M. Butcher
#70. The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.
Robin Williams
#71. If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#72. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Jesus Christ
#73. being meek and silent prevents social violence. The message is, "I am not challenging you, I will do nothing bad, you do whatever you want and I will stay out of your way." This is exactly what a predator is looking
Rory Miller
#75. First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now.
Meek Mill
#76. O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding clouds of prejudice, Would we could see all truly as it is; The calm eternal truth would keep us meek.
Robinson Jeffers
#77. I always had pressure on myself through my life. I put pressure on myself and not from other people. I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers. So the pressure comes from myself.
Meek Mill
#78. His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution; but if we turn penitently to Him, He enables us to bear our punishment with a meek and docile heart, 'for His mercy endureth forever.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#79. I'm into all types of stuff. I might have on Pumas one day, Givenchy the next. I'd wear this John Elliott sweat suit to the club.
Meek Mill
#80. Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.
John Calvin
#81. We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.
Kendrick Meek
#82. Meek and drake happen to be two of the young kings with strong voices and followings that give people hope I hope they know this n b smart!
Styles P
#83. Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
Nancy Gibbs
#84. To achieve charity, we must submit, become patient, meek, humble ... We must exercise the love of God as a power.
F. Enzio Busche
#85. I want to share with the American people that President Bush and the Republican majority in just 4 years have borrowed $1.05 trillion from foreign nations. That is selling our country to other nations because of the spending that is going on.
Kendrick Meek
#86. How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive him still, The dear Christ enters in.
Phillips Brooks
#87. I think artists should be able to do different things whenever they want and I like the way I am. I'm like - I ain't gonna say the only street rapper, but the only mainstream, new, young street rapper there is right now and I'm doing well with it.
Meek Mill
#88. In all, dozens upon dozens of groups and organizations have prioritized stopping the killing in Darfur before there is no one left to be killed. It is high time that we, the U.S. Congress, join our name to that list.
Kendrick Meek
#89. Negroes
Sweet and docile,
Meek, humble, and kind:
Beware the day
They change their minds!
Wind
In the cotton fields,
Gentle breeze:
Beware the hour
It uproots trees!
Langston Hughes
#90. There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus, meek and mild, that the idea of eternal torture for minor transgressions is introduced.
Christopher Hitchens
#91. Christ says that He is 'humble and meek' and we believe Him; not noticing that, if He were merely a man, humility and meekness are the very last characteristics we could attribute to some of His sayings.
C.S. Lewis
#92. Tens of thousands of South Florida jobs are dependent on the trade and commerce that our ports provide, and we have to make sure that we spend our security dollars wisely.
Kendrick Meek
#93. Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.
William Wordsworth
#94. When I'm not in the booth, I'm one of the most laid-back guys. But growing up, I liked DMX, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, and T.I. - dudes that went all out on the track. My first songs were energetic because I liked their energy.
Meek Mill
#95. The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,
And placed it by thee on a golden throne,
And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)
Is by thee only, whom I love alone.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#96. Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps.
Phyllis McGinley
#97. One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no matter what they've been doing they weren't sure it was right - lambies all over the world.
Jack Kerouac
#98. I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers.
Meek Mill
#99. If you don't have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the money in the world, but with no friends and no family, it's no good.
Meek Mill
#100. The Rolls Royce was the real first car. It wasn't the first new car I got, but it was the first real car I bought that's like, 'Wow, I got this.'
Meek Mill
