Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
“That thou mayest pray for them
Thy foes are given:
I bring thee fretful friends that
Thou mayest train
Thy soul to patience.”
Meekness is not an easy grace. Indeed, no grace comes easily. It is the heavenly life into which we are being fashioned, and nothing less that a moral and spiritual revolution will produce in us the heavenly qualities. The old must die that the new may live. Spiritual graces are not merely amiable traits of nature trained and cultivated into gentleness – they are transformations wrought by the divine Spirit.
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