Brethren Quotes - Page 4

• I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Arrows, Missionary, Judgment

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• ...it is proper that the duty of helping the poor and unfortunate should especially stir Catholics, since they are members of the Mystical Body of Christ. In this we have come to know the love of God, said John the Apostle, that He laid down His life for us, and we likewise ought to lay down our life for the brethren. He who has the goods of this world and sees his brother in need and closes his heart to him, how does the love of God abide in him? (1Jn 3:16 17)

  Pope John XXII

  Brother, Heart, Catholic

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• Our responsibility as Christians makes us tremble. The northern hemisphere, the developed area of the world, the 20% who possess 80% of the world's resources, are of Christian origin. What impression can our African and Asian brethren and the masses in Latin America have of Christianity, if the tree is to be judged by its fruits? For we Christians are largely responsible for the unjust world in which we live.

  Hélder Câmara

  Christian, Latin, Responsibility

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• Heaven, too, was very near to them in those days. God's direct agency was to be seen in the thunder and the rainbow, the whirlwind and the lightning. To the believer, clouds of angels and confessors, and martyrs, armies of the sainted and the saved, were ever stooping over their struggling brethren upon earth, raising, encouraging, and supporting them.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Struggle, Angel, Army

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir (2009). “The White Company: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.26, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ignorance, Animal, Reptiles

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it.

  Francis of Assisi

  Hurt, Humble, Animal

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• Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in their enjoyments, and, consequently triffling in their value. Let us disappoint the Men who are raising themselves on the ruin of this Country. Let us convince every invader of our freedom, that we will be as free as the constitution our fathers recognized, will justify.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Father, Struggle

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• I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring - I despair of seeing an Abolition of the infernal trafic in Negroes - we must push that matter further on your side the water - I wish that a few well instructed Negroes could be sent among their Brethren in Bondage, for until they are enabled to take their own part nothing will be done.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Spring, Your Side

  Thomas Paine (1995). “Thomas Paine: Collected Writings: Common Sense / The American Crisis / Rights of: (Library of America #76)”, p.372, Library of America

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• A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.

  Lord Byron

  War, Men, Essence

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• I went off to college, a good, middle-class, very proper college, a Brethren institution, where two years of Bible study are required for graduation. It was a good, sound, thorough, but completely biased evaluation of the Bible, and I was delighted with it, because it helped to document my doubts; it gave me a framework within which I could be critical.My independent study continued for 20 years after this. So I do know the Bible very well from a Protestant point of view.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Independent, College, Years

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• It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Community, Grace

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.10, SCM Press

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• My beloved young friends, determine to serve one another. Opportunities for Christian acts of service do not always come at convenient times. Listen to the spirit when your flesh is weak. For truly the Master said, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me" (Matt. 25:40). The blessings are tenfold when we do those good, kindly acts of Christian service when it is inopportune or not convenient.

  Vaughn J Featherstone

  Friendship, Christian, Blessing

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• While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution, and affliction, yet I wish to say to my brethren and sisters that these things are the heritage of the Saints of God. … I have never read of the people of God in any dispensation passing through life, as the sectarian world would say, on flowery beds of ease, without opposition of any kind.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Past, People, Wish

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• Now, brethren, this is one of our greatest faults in our Christian lives. We are allowing too many rivals of God. We actually have too many gods. We have too many irons in the fire. We have too much theology that we don't understand. We have too much churchly institutionalism. We have too much religion. Actually, I guess we just have too much of too much.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Fire, Iron

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• There was a day when I died; died to self, my opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.

  George Muller

  Self, World, Taste

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• However, the daily life of the slaves in the South, as observed by many travelers, was obscured for all time by the relentless promotion of a single book, Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Even today, any black who dares to say that perhaps we are not as badly off as our brethren in the jungles of Africa is hooted down as an "Uncle Tom." [...] It was no accident that Harriet Beecher Stowe's book became the greatest best seller of its time - it was tirelessly promoted throughout the entire nation, in the most successful book promotion campaign in our history.

  Eustace Mullins

  Uncles, War, Book

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• The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss and enjoy the agonies of their brethren in eternal fire.

  Pope Gregory I

  Fire, Agony, Perfect

  "A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, Volume 1". Book by Henry Charles Lea, 1887.

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• There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names. It is, however, pure and proceeds from God. It is deep and inward, confined to no forms of religion nor excluded from any, where the heart stands in perfect sincerity. In whomsoever this takes root and grows, of what nation soever, they become brethren in the best sense of the expression.

  John Woolman

  God, Christian, Heart

  John WOOLMAN (1840). “A Journal of the Life, Gospel labours, and christian experiences of ---”, p.238

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• Leave Christ out? O my brethren, better leave the pulpit out altogether. If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ’s name in it, it ought to be his last, certainly the last that any Christian ought to go to hear him preach.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Names

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• Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men of action all of you. Get to work and quit yourselves like men. Old Suvarov's idea of war is mine: `Forward and strike! No theory! Attack! Form a column! Charge bayonets! Plunge into the center of the enemy! Our one aim is to win souls; and this we are not to talk about, but do in the power of God!'

  Charles Spurgeon

  War, Winning, Men

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• The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from being unmolested, they yet enjoyed comparative rest. At the commencement of the sixteenth century their churches numbered two hundred in Bohemia and Moravia.

  Ezra Hall Gillett

  Two, Church, Increase

  Ezra Hall Gillett (1864). “The Life and Times of John Huss: Or, The Bohemian Reformation of the Fifteenth Century”, p.570

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• My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Giving Up, Love You, Firsts

  Thomas Goodwin (1861). “The Works of Thomas Goodwin”, p.167

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• The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.

  Angelina Grimke

  White, Silence, Despair

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.116, Penguin

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• The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.

  Helen Keller

  Education, Life Lesson, Acceptance

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• Every Christian in America has some minimal responsibility to get involved in helping the poor brethren in the church in other countries.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Christian, Country, Responsibility

  K. P. Yohannan (2014). “Revolution in World Missions: One Man's Journey to Change a Generation”, p.44, Gospel For Asia Books

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