Saturday, January 1, 2011

Meekness

Meekness is a virtue which implies loftiness of soul. For this reason worldlings usually are usually wanting in meekness, for this loftiness is found in them but rarely and imperfectly. If they are not the first to use harsh and discourteous expressions, yet when they are addressed to them by others, they resent and return them promptly, showing by their revenge that they have a rude and ignoble heart. And so, the servants of God, remaining always quiet and peaceable, though provoked by words or acts, manifest a perfect loftiness of soul superior to all rudeness.

St. Thomas Aquinas