meekness

I'd also have to say, just to be a nit, that if you are committed enough to the life of the imagination to be a writer -- a non-didactic writer for children, though still a political one -- then perhaps this implies some sort of faith in meekness ...?

"Crap, here comes Teacher!" Roger Sutton 2007

This truly is an excercise in meekness and patience on my part.

Home Away From Home 2005

"Resist not the weakness/Such strength is in meekness" goes the Song of Spirits in Prometheus Unbound (II. iii.93-4), and this message of humility might make resistance to available forms of violence and acquisitiveness sustainable over a long and healthy life.

Henry Salt on Shelley: Literary Criticism and Ecological Identity 2001

"If only you had my meekness," Dürer wrote to Pirkheimer (set: p. 85), half in jest doubtless, but with profound truth: -- though the word meekness does not indeed cover the whole of what we feel made Dürer's most radical advantage over his friend; at other times we might call it naïvety, that sincerity of great and simple natures which can never be outflanked or surprised.

Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907

What a beautiful mixture of dignity and meekness is this!

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

We must now await in meekness the storm that will follow their receipt of

London: Saturday, October 18, 1862 1862

Ministers must be patient, bearing with evil, and in meekness instructing (v. 25) not only those who subject themselves, but those who oppose themselves.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

As to particular persons, that follow Christ in meekness, and in fear, and in much trembling, observe, [1.]

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

And as wisdom will evidence itself in meekness, so meekness will be a great friend to wisdom; for nothing hinders the regular apprehension, the solid judgment, and impartiality of thought, necessary to our acting wisely, so much as passion.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

Jesus taught meekness and meekness is despised as a vice; he taught the superiority of the spiritual over the material world, and we have society built on the assumption that might makes right; he taught love and the world is corroded with hate; and our admiration goes out to those who can make others serve them; he taught poverty, and the very church which he founded has grown rich on the fruit of sweat shops and prostitution.

Aleta Dey 1919