• Don’t get too attached the things of this world.
  • Be resolute about seeking a peaceful soul and quickly repent when your passions get the better of you.
  • Stay away from things that you know will provoke you.
  • Learn to pause.
  • Ask the Holy Spirit to grow meekness in you.
  • Frequently examine yourself to see how you are improving.
  • Spend time with meek and quiet people.
  • Study the cross of Christ.
  • Meditate much on death.

These are Matthew Henry’s suggestions in his book on meekness. He concludes: “we all wish to see quiet families, and quiet churches, and quiet neighborhoods, and quiet nations; and it will be so, if there be quiet hearts; and not otherwise.”