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Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. The New International Version translates the passage as: Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Augustine: Let the unyielding then wrangle and quarrel about earthly and temporal things, the meek are blessed, for they shall inherit the earth, and not be rooted out of it; that earth of which it is said in the Psalms, Thy lot is in the land of the living, (Ps. 142:5.) meaning the fixedness of a perpetual inheritance, in which the soul that ...
Meekness is an attribute of human nature and behavior that has been defined as an amalgam of righteousness, inner humility, and patience. [1]Meekness has been contrasted with humility alone insomuch as humility simply refers to an attitude towards oneself—a restraining of one's own power [2] so as to allow room for others—whereas meekness refers to the treatment of others.
1. "Let Your goodness, Lord, appear to us, that we, made in your image, conform ourselves to it. In our own strength we cannot imitate Your majesty, power, and wonder
With the poor and mean and lowly, Lived on earth our Saviour holy. 3 And through all His wondrous childhood He would honour and obey, Love and watch the lowly maiden, In whose gentle arms He lay: Christian children all must be Mild, obedient, good as He. 4 For he is our childhood's pattern; Day by day like us he grew, He was little, weak, and ...
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the [American] Civil War".
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Like Dickens, with whom he has much more in common than Gissing had, he shows a happier touch in revealing the merits of the meek and lowly than in exposing the failings of the rich and noble. Vivid as is the gift of satire which he exhibits in other directions, he cannot get a scantling of truth and sharpness into his caricatures of ...