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What are the special effects of Christian meekness?

Part II: On Hope · The Third Beatitude

Q452

What are the special effects of Christian meekness?

Christian meekness produces many blessings such as these: never to murmur against God, nor even against men, when anything falls out contrary to our wishes; not to give way to anger; and not to exalt oneself. As St James teaches: “my beloved brethren: be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger! Anger does not produce the righteousness of God” (Jas 1:19–20); and the supreme example is the Lord, “and when he was cursed, he did not curse back. When he suffered, he did not threaten, but committed himself to the one who judges righteously” (1Pe 2:23; see Q583).