Our Brother Quotes
29 quotes by 29 authors
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Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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It can happen that when we are at prayer some brothers come to see us. Then we have to choose either to interrupt our prayer…
— John Climacus
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Niepokalanow is a home like Nazareth. The Father is God the Father, the mother and mistress of the home is the Immaculata, the firstborn son…
— Maximilian Kolbe
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The Jewish bourgeoisie are our enemies, not as Jews but as bourgeoisie. The Jewish worker is our brother.
— Vladimir Lenin
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My friends, let us try to follow the Saviour's steps; let us remember all day long what it is to be men; that it is…
— Charles Kingsley
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The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God's family, not only has he become our…
— John Stott
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Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where…
— Whitney M. Young
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We each deal with childhood in different ways. That brothers and sisters can take the same lump of clay that is childhood and use it…
— Laura Ramirez
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We are often indifferent to our brethren who are distressed or upset, on the grounds that they are in this state through no fault of…
— John Cassian
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At every step there is a pretext for enmity against our brother.
— John of Kronstadt
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Our life and our death is with our neighbor. If we gain our brother, we have gained God, but if we scandalize our brother, we…
— Anthony the Great
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The man who knows the delight of the love of God ? when the soul warmed by grace, loves both God and her brother ?…
— Silouan the Athonite
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We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.
— Maya Angelou
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Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When we trust our brother, whom we have seen, we are learning to trust God, whom we have not seen.
— James Freeman Clarke
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I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a…
— Dorothy Day
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The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us that we are…
— Luther Burbank
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Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas…
— Pope Francis
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The mark of Cain is stamped upon our foreheads. Across the centuries, our brother Abel was lain in blood which we drew, and shed tears…
— Pope John XXIII
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We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old…
— C.S. Lewis
Who Wrote These Our Brother Quotes
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