Brethren Quotes
198 quotes by 138 authors
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Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that "knowing this" in our spirit we may truly confess "that our old man has been…
— Watchman Nee
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O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe.
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long, since he does…
— Charles Spurgeon
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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.
— Dorothee Solle
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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…
— Zhang Zai
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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…
— Giuseppe Mazzini
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You and I, we are the Church, no? We have to share with our people. Suffering today is because people are hoarding, not giving, not…
— Mother Teresa
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Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.
— Colman McCarthy
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The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity, the three great Christian imperatives so desperately needed in the world…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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If performed in the right spirit, there is no higher worship than the unpurchased service to another soul of whatever faith, belief, or social stratum.…
— James E. Faust
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Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren.
— William Tyndale
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But to procrastinate and prevaricate simply because you're afraid of erring, when others - I mean our brethren in Germany - must make infinitely more…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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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…
— Jean Vanier
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You must know how to translate the indications of the word into daily witness, allowing yourselves to be formed by the word which, like seed…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.
— Henry Beston
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Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.
— William Shakespeare
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I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver.
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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...it is proper that the duty of helping the poor and unfortunate should especially stir Catholics, since they are members of the Mystical Body of…
— Pope John XXII
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