Brethren Quotes
Brethren Quote of the day
Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it.
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.
Give the brethren a chance to do something, anything, no matter how small or unimportant. A brother convinced that he is helpful is enthusiastic.
Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.
I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.
Do not trouble yourself for your brethren, for we have already provided lands for them, which they shall possess forever.
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.
Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.
To consider mankind other than brethren...plainly supposes a darkness of understanding.
Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.
Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community." A community is not an abstract ideal.
Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.
Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings
O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you.
He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community.
You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you.
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.
I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver.
My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.
Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.
O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe.
In everything that moves through the universe, I see my own body, and in everything that governs the universe, my own soul. All men are my brethren, and all things my companions.
All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord.
Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.
Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.
It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.
This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme
In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.
Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those of our Southern brethren.
Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!
It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.
Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.
What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?
Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.
I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.
A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.
Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity
No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?
Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
Blessed be the memory of those few brethren who contended so strenuously for their constitutional rights and religious freedom, against such an overwhelming force of desperadoes!
By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.
God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.
The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.