Brother Quote by John Steinbeck

“…this was the gold from our mining: 'Thou mayest.' The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin (and you can call sin…

— Jo A. Lee

“Now, there are many millions in their sects and churches who feel the order, 'Do thou,' and throw their weight into obedience. And there…

— John Steinbeck

“Ah!' said Lee. 'I’ve wanted to tell you this for a long time. I even anticipated your questions and I am well prepared. Any…

— John Steinbeck

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists…

— John Calvin

“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will…

— Alejo Carpentier

Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all…

— Homer

“Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over…

— Jethro father in law to Moses

“But because this man listens and that man scoffs, and most are enamored of the blandishments of vice rather than the wholesome severity of…

— Philip Schaff

“For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is— limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death—He had the honesty and…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“But it is often those who have least of all in this life whom He chooseth for the kingdom. Put thy trust in Him…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold…

— Katherine Anne Porter

“How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill!…

— Sir Henry Wotton