{"quotes":[{"text":"Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it.","author":"Jon Meacham","tags":["charisma","leadership","meekness","unity"],"id":16130,"author_id":"Jon+Meacham"},{"text":"The way of the world isn't the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and whispering in the ears of the strong until they become weak, too.","author":"N.K. Jemisin","tags":["blessed-are-the-meek","meek","meekness","meekness-strength","power-politics","strength","strength-of-character"],"id":19468,"author_id":"N.K.+Jemisin"},{"text":"Honor, More charged, 'is the religion of tragedy.' Emotions such as love, hate, ambition, pride, and jealousy, 'form a dazzling system of worldly morality,' which contradicts 'the spirit of that religion whose characteristics are charity, meekness, peaceableness, longsuffering, gentleness, forgiveness.","author":"Karen Swallow Prior","tags":["ambition","charity","emotions","honor","longsuffering","meekness","peace","pride","religion","truth"],"id":22192,"author_id":"Karen+Swallow+Prior"},{"text":"Jehovah chose to do great things through me. I lay my life in total humility never to take the Glory that comes from doing His great work… It all belongs to Him.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bible","christ","dedication","food-for-thought","glory","glory-be-to-god","god","great","great-things","humble","humility","israelmore-ayivor","jehovah","jesus","jesus-christ","life","meek","meekness","prayer","total-humility"],"id":27033,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Humble yourself before the Lord and he will lift you high. People who are gentle, humble and able always have a great ending no matter how small and where obscured they have started!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["able","begin","do-it-well","finish-well","food-for-thought","gentle","great","great-ending","he-will-lift-you-high","high","higher","higher-ground","highest","humble","humble-yourself","humble-yourself-before-the-lord","humility","israelmore-ayivor","lift","lord","meek","meekness","obscure","people","small","started","you"],"id":30197,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Do not mistake a leader's meekness for weakness.","author":"Orrin Woodward","tags":["leadership","meekness","weakness"],"id":38955,"author_id":"Orrin+Woodward"},{"text":"Make no mistake about it, no matter how kind, meek, humble and soft your giving heart is — you are a warrior!","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["humbleness","kindness","meekness"],"id":56941,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"Don't confuse one leader's bluster for muster or another leader's meekness for weakness.","author":"Orrin Woodward","tags":["bluster","leadership","meekness","muster","weakness"],"id":63328,"author_id":"Orrin+Woodward"},{"text":"Without opposition, there could be no creation. All life would cease without resistance. Emotions also have their polar opposites: attraction – repulsion, love – hate, aggression – meekness, and mercy – callousness.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["aggression","conflict","creation","creativity","emotions","hate","love","meekness","mercy","opposites","opposition","opposition-in-life","opposition","resistance"],"id":69493,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Humility is by far the most spiritual virtue of the lot. The only way by which one may cease obsessing over himself is to wholly step outside his flesh. But who could do this by himself? And who would really want to under his natural pretense? And even if somehow he could and he succeeded, would not it be artificial? Would not he seem far too aware of his own talents of achieving humility for it to be such? Alternatively, he would need a distraction, something else to love; it is not that the Humbleman thinks poorly of himself, nor highly for that matter, but rather he does not think of himself at all - and this is because he is too busy loving something or someone else to do it. For the humility of this kind 'rears its head' as the most love-driven and free, spiritual of virtues; whereas its opposite, pride, the most self-imprisoning human vice.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["conceitedness","consideration","distraction","ego","flesh","freedom","god","humility","love","meekness","narcissism","pride","self","self-absorption","self-obsession","selflessness","spiritual","vice","virtue"],"id":88325,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":43,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}