Kayla Youngren’s Reviews > The Quest for Meekness and Quietness of Spirit > Status Update

“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.”

“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…”