Dear Brother Quotes

• My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.

  Cornel West

  Brother, Growing Up, Father

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• My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

  Beverly Sills

  Brother, Men, Desire

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• To love God and neighbor is not something abstract, but profoundly concrete: it means seeing in every person and face of the Lord to be served, to serve him concretely. And you are, dear brothers and sisters, in the face of Jesus.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Brother, Mean

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• My dear brother, let God make of you what He will, He will end all with consolation, and shall make glory out of your suffering.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Letting Go, Brother, Suffering

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• I think that when we talk about education I was also blessed to talk with my dear brother Arne Duncan. I had never met him, the secretary of Education. We had a wonderful talk. And I had told him quite explicitly education is a right, it's not a race to the top.

  Cornel West

  Brother, Blessed, Thinking

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• I know my dear brother, President [Barack] Obama, has a bust of Martin King right there in the Oval Office, but the question is are is he going to be true to who that Martin Luther King, Jr., actually is? King was concerned about what? The poor. He was concerned about working people. He was concerned about quality jobs. He was concerned about quality housing. He was concerned about precious babies in Vietnam, the way we ought to be concerned about precious babies in Afghanistan and precious babies in Tel Aviv and precious babies in Gaza.

  Cornel West

  Baby, Brother, Kings

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• Dear Brothers and Sisters, Never resort to war! Never war! Above all, I think of all the children who are robbed of their hope for a better life and a decent future. Killed children, wounded children, mutilated children, orphans, children who play with remnants of war, instead of toys. Children who don't know how to smile. Please stop! I ask you with all my heart. It's time to stop. Stop it please!

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Children, War

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• Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Memories, Remembrance

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 1

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• The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your joy in God.

  John Piper

  Brother, Joy, Ministry

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• Please, my dear brothers, let your wives and sisters go to the voter registration process. Later, you can control who she votes for, but please, let her go.

  Hamid Karzai

  Brother, Wife, Scary

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• My dear brother, never allow a woman to hold all of the cards.

  Karen Hawkins

  Brother, Cards, Dear

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• Speak every time my dear brother as if it were your last

  George Whitefield

  Brother, Lasts, Speak

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• Seva, love and sacrifice are the basic prerequisites for human development. If you agree with this precept, nurture good will towards all and help people to the best of your ability without expecting anything in return. Don't think, 'I will render service only when the organizers agree with me and not otherwise.' Dear brother! In that case, you will not be able to serve. You will only nurture your ego by making others agree with you.

  Asaram

  Love, Brother, Sacrifice

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• And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Brother, Politics, Dear

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• My dear brother, we must not mind a little suffering for Christs sake. When I am getting through a hedge, if my head and shoulders are safely through, I can bear the pricking of my legs. Let us rejoice in the remembrance that our holy Head has surmounted all His suffering and triumphed over death. Let us follow Him patiently; we shall soon be partakers of His victory

  Charles Simeon

  Brother, Remembrance, Mind

  Charles Simeon (1848). “Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon, Late Senior Fellow of King's College and Minister of Trinity Church, Cambridge: With a Selection from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.474

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• I thank you, dear Brothers, for preaching the love of Christ and exhorting your people to tolerance, respect and love of their brothers and sisters and of all persons. In this way you exercise the prophetic ministry that the Lord has entrusted to the Church, and in particular to the Successors of the Apostles (cf. Pastores Gregis, 26).

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Brother, Exercise, Cfs

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• My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Brother, Progress, Enlightenment

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• I came with the notion of perhaps saying something for monks and to monks of all religions because I am supposed to be a monk. ... My dear brothers, WE ARE ALREADY ONE. BUT WE IMAGINE THAT WE ARE NOT. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are

  Thomas Merton

  Brother, Unity, Imagine

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• Go on, dear brother; but an inch of time remains, and then eternal ages roll on for ever--but an inch on which we can stand and preach the way of salvation to a perishing world.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Brother, Age, Goes On

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1852). “Memoir and remains of the rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, minister of St. Peter's church, Dundee”, p.250

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• You must be strong, dear brothers and sisters. You must be strong with the strength that comes from faith.

  Pope John Paul II

  Strong, Brother, Catholic

  Pope John Paul II (1979). “Pilgrim to Poland”

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• The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept. Not that we discover a new unity. We discover an older unity. My dear Brothers [and Sisters], we are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.

  Thomas Merton

  Brother, Communication, Unity

  Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.13, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Dear brothers and sisters...The Lord is calling me to "climb the mountain", to devote myself even more to prayer and meditation. But this does not mean abandoning the Church, indeed, if God is asking me to do this, it is so I can continue to serve the Church with the same dedication and the same love with which I have done thus far, but in a way that is better suited to my age and my strength

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Brother, Prayer, Mean

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• Dear brothers and sisters, the Church loves you! Be an active presence in the community, as living cells, as living stones.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Love You, Cells

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Sister, Brother, Humble

  Remarks from balcony at St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, 19 Apr. 2005

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