Brethren Quotes

• The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.

  Henry Beston

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving

  Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”

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• There is no limit to the potential of brethren working together in complete brotherhood and selflessness toward spiritual goals. The power of God working through such channels will bring unimaginable blessings to all concerned.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Spiritual, Blessing, Goal

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• We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals.

  Henry Beston

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Needs

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.18, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.75, SCM Press

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• My brethren, let me say, be like Christ at all times. Imitate him in "public." Most of us live in some sort of public capacity-many of us are called to work before our fellow-men every day. We are watched; our words are caught; our lives are examined-taken to pieces. The eagle-eyed, argus-eyed world observes everything we do, and sharp critics are upon us. Let us live the life of Christ in public. Let us take care that we exhibit our Master, and not ourselves-so that we can say, "It is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me."

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Live Life, Taken

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• Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Children, School

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.356, Editora Dracaena

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• Brethren, who are we that God should have been so good to us?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Should Have, Has Beens, Should

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• He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Community

  "From Brokenness to Community". Book by Jean Vanier, 1992, 1992.

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• 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.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Simple, Light

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• For us Christians, love of neighbour springs from love of God; and it is its most limpid expression. Here one tries to love one's neighbour, but also to allow oneself to be loved by one's neighbour. These two attitudes go together, one cannot be exercised without the other. Printed on the letterhead of the Missionaries of Charity are these words of Jesus: "as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me". Loving God in our brethren and loving our brethren in God.

  Pope Francis

  Love, Christian, Jesus

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• I am optimistic about the future. Brethren, for our part, we must remain steadfast in hope, work with all our strength, and trust in God.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Optimistic, Trust In God, Steadfast

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• I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Book, Men, Religion

  "History of the Church", 4:461, November 28, 1841.

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• Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings

  George Whitefield

  Perfect, Suffering, Captains

  George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.45

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• 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.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Freedom, Law

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D”, p.295

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• How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves

  Benjamin Banneker

  Father, Rights, Criminals

  Letter to Thomas Jefferson on slavery, August 19, 1791.

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• The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.

  Austin O'Malley

  War, Gunpowder, Monk

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• Paul commands: 'Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the Traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.' From this it is clear that they did not hand down everything by letter, but there is much also that was not written. Like that which was written, the unwritten too is worthy of belief. So let us regard the Tradition of the Church also as worthy of belief. Is it a Tradition? Seek no further.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Hands, Church, Letters

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• The trick, my brethren and sisters is to enjoy the journey, traveling hand in hand, in sunshine and storm, as companions who love one another.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Sunshine, Journey, Hands

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• Our Lord Jesus Christ , my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Jesus, Hero, World

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.114, Delphi Classics

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• If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me.' and 'Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Kingdoms, Made

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• The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they are more finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other Nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

  Henry Beston

  Taken, Fate, Men

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.18, David R. Godine Publisher

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  War, Animal, Men

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.84, Univ of California Press

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• Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

  William C. Bryant

  Strength, Children, Adversity

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• 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.

  George Whitefield

  Powerful, Heart, Christ

  George Whitefield (1904). “Selected Sermons of George Whitefield: With an Introduction and Notes by the Rev. A.R. Buckland ...”, p.392, CCEL

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