Gentleness

In May 1528 Luther wrote to Duke John Frederick:

God has promised great mercy to those who seek peace and endure guile when he says: 'Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.' War does not gain much, but loses much and risks everything.

Gentleness, however, loses nothing, risks little, and gains everything.

--Luther's Works, 49:196
Dane Ortlund