A Quote by Joe Orton

The humble and meek are thirsting for lood

Joe Orton

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Humble Meek

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Joe Orton
English - Playwright
January 1, 1933 - August 9, 1967

The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.

Joe Orton

When I was reading the Bible, I came across the word 'meek.' It means to be humble. I asked God, I want to become meek, allow me to become meek. About two months later I was struck with cancer. I realized this was God testing me. If you want to become appreciative, and humble, and meek, I'll strip you of everything.

Daniel Jacobs

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

Samuel Butler

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

Langston Hughes

The meek and the humble died at Mt. Carmel. And the strong and the arrogant - the FBI and the ATF - lived.

David Thibodeau

Meek Mill - my homies used to call me 'Meek Millions,' and at the time I didn't have no millions, so I ain't really want to be called 'Millions,' so I just shortened it down to Meek Mill. 'Meek Milli,' my friends used to call me.

Meek Mill

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

Jesus told us to learn from him how to be meek and humble of heart. We must look at his life if we are to have any concept of what humility is all about.

Mother Angelica

To achieve charity, we must submit, become patient, meek, humble. . . . We must exercise the love of God as a power.

F. Enzio Busche

I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled.

Sylvia Plath

The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.

William Penn

Jesus sowed good seeds into the lives of the people He touched. His walk was humble, meek, giving, and forgiving, and He taught His disciples to be the same way.

Monica Johnson

To be meek and humble means to have a service attitude towards God, the Vaisnavas, and all living beings. Unless we have that, our chanting will have minimal effect and many births may pass before we finally come to the conclusion.

Radhanath Swami

Is not our Lord as meek and humble in the Blessed Sacrament as He was during His life on earth? Is He not always the Good Shepherd, the Divine Consoler, the Changeless Friend? Happy the soul that knows how to find Jesus in the Holy Eucharist, and in the Eucharist all things!

Peter Julian Eymard

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.