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“This who live a life of repentance, as everyone of us has reason to do, cannot but live a quiet life; for nobody can lightly say worse of the true penitent than he says of himself.”

“It is a good evidence of our reconciliation to God, if we be cordially reconciled to every cross providence, which necessarily includes a meek behavior toward those who are any ways instrumental in the cross.”

Let the Bible be the mirror at which you dress; and while others are weightily engaged in catching a fashion, or adjusting a curl, let the object of your cultivation be the understanding, the memory, the will, the affections, the conscience.

“Follow meekness, that is, ‘as much as in you lies live peaceably with all men,’ endeavoring to ‘keep the unity of the Spirit.’ We can but make one side of the bargain; if others will quarrel, yet let us be peaceable. If others will strike the fire, that is their fault; let not us be as tinder to it.”

“…’Blessed are the meek’ that are careful to keep possession of their souls when they can keep possession of nothing else, whose hearts are fixed and quiet in shaking and unquiet times.”

“He that sits down content with the grace he has; and is not pressing forward toward perfection, and striving to grow in grace, to get the habits of it more strengthened and confirmed and the operations of it more quickened and invigorated, has no true grace at all, it is to be feared.”

“…that we are so impatient of competitors, not enduring that any should stand in our light, or share in that work of honor which we would engross to ourselves; that we are so impatient of contempt, so quick in our apprehension and resentment of the least slight or affront; and so quick to imagine injuries where really there are none or none intended.”

“It is for want of meekness that me are so impatient of contradiction in our opinions, desires, and designs; that we must have our own saying, right or wrong, and everything our own way…”

Suffering saints (as the suffering Jesus) are compared to sheep (Isa. 53:7; Rom. 8:36), as sheep dumb before the shearer, nay, dumb before the butcher. The meek and quiet Christian, if duly called to it, can tamely part not only with the wool, but with the blood; not only with the estate, but with the life, and even then rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.

“It is the evil of passion that turns our friends into enemies; but it is the excellency of meekness that it turns our enemies into friends, which is an effectual way of conquering them.”