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To consider mankind other than brethren...plainly supposes a darkness of understanding.

John Woolman

Understanding, Darkness, Mankind

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'Wherefore, brethren, thus must ye train yourselves : Liberation of the will through love will develop, we will often practice it, we will make it vehicle and base, take our stand upon it, store it up, throughly set it going.'

Gautama Buddha

Practice, Ethics, Morality

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To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our weapons and to betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

C. S. Lewis

Philosophy, Simple, Intellectual

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In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Jesus

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.82, SCM Press

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That man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims at being thought superior to them, but reckons it enough that he is one of the members of Christ, and desires nothing more than that the Head alone should be exalted.

John Calvin

Humble, Men, Sight

John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Matthew”, p.360, Ravenio Books

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Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!

Charles Spurgeon

Mean, Men, Coward

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Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.

Norman Lamm

Attitude, Israel, Land

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In proportion as the ardor of divine love brings you nearer to God, so will a larger concourse of saintly brethren flock to you. For, as the Lord says, 'A city set on a hill cannot be hid' (Mt. 5:14).

John Cassian

Christian, Cities, Hills

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The time will come when we will be obliged to depend upon our own resources; for the time is not far distant when the curtain will be dropped between us and the United States. When the time comes, brethren and sisters, you will wish you had commenced sooner to make your own clothing. I tell you, God requires us to go into home manufacture; and, prolong it as much as you like, you have got to do it.

Heber C. Kimball

Home, Wish, United States

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Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus.

Charles Spurgeon

Religious, Jesus, Thinking

Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 15: Sermons 848 to 907”, p.120, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master.

Frederick William Robertson

Happiness, Christian, Son

Frederick William Robertson (1858). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series”, p.177

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We should ask ourselves: What are the Brethren saying? The living prophets can open the visions of eternity; they give counsel on how to overcome the world. We cannot know what that counsel is if we do not listen.

James E. Faust

Religious, Blessing, Giving

"Reach Up for the Light".

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Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren.

Charles Spurgeon

Prayer, Hands, Use

Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.152, Discovery House

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And that law of the land which is constitutional, supporting that principle of freedom in maintaining rights and privileges, belongs to all mankind, and is justifiable before me. Therefore, I, the Lord, justify you, and your brethren of my church, in befriending that law which is the constitutional law of the land.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Freedom, Rights, Law

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Joseph Smith (Jr.) (1911). “The Doctrine and Covenants: Of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Containing the Revelations Given to Joseph Smith, Jun., the Prophet, for the Building Up of the Kingdom of God in the Last Days”

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I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can engage. They have a direct tendency to kill a worldly, trifling spirit, and to draw down a Divine blessing upon all our concerns, compose differences, and enkindle (at least maintain) the flames of Divine love amongst brethren.

John Newton

Christian, Prayer, Exercise

John Newton, Richard Cecil (1824). “The Works of the Rev. J. Newton ...: With the Memoirs of the Author and General Remarks on His Life, Connections, and Character”, p.77

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Forsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.

William Morris

Friendship, Heaven, Earth

'A Dream of John Ball' (1888) ch. 4

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Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

Voltaire

Years, Religion, Thank God

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Our Southern brethren have done grievously, they have rebelled and have attacked their father's house and their loyal brothers. They must be punished and brought back, but this necessity breaks my heart.

Robert Anderson

Brother, Father, War

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None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in such a school, the danger of goose-stepping, uniformed ranks. But the Serapion Brethren have already, it seems to me, outgrown this danger. Each of them has his own individuality and his own handwriting. The common thing they have derived from the studio is the art of writing with ninety-proof ink, the art of eliminating everything that is superfluous, which is, perhaps, more difficult than writing.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Inspirational, Art, Writing

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What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

Mahatma Gandhi

Government, Satanic, Guilty

Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Collected Works: (1920:Nov.-1921:Apr.)”

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A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Christian, Men, Rights

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.559, Wordsworth Editions

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To Israel's faithful hosts in the past, as to its loyal sons and daughters of the present, the Siddur has been the gate to communion with their Father in Heaven; and, at the same time, it has been a mighty spiritual bond that unites them to their scattered brethren the world over.

Joseph Hertz

Daughter, Spiritual, Father

"The Authorised Daily Prayer Book". Book by Joseph Hertz, Introduction (p. ix),

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But these dear boys and girls--there is, something to be made out of them. If now they yield themselves to Christ they may have a long, happy, and holy day before them in which they may serve God with all then hearts. Who knows what glory God may have of them? Heathen lands may call them blessed. Whole nations may be enlightened by them. O brethren and sisters, let us estimate children at their true valuation, and we shall not keep them back, but we shall be eager to lead them to Jesus at once.

Charles Spurgeon

Girl, Jesus, Children

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Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.

Thomas Carlyle

Intellectual, Mind, Territory

Thomas Carlyle (1845). “The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His Works”, p.56, London : Chapman and Hall

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