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My Brethren if thou endure thy trials well though shalt be exalted. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God. -- Samuel Chadwick
Brethren, who are we that God should have been so good to us? -- Charles Spurgeon
Brethren, the just man shall scarcely be saved. What, then, will become of the sinner? -- Arsenius the Great
Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect. -- Paul the Apostle
Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves. -- John Flavel
Right is of no Sex-Truth is of no Color-God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren. -- Frederick Douglass
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
There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us. -- Howard W. Hunter
We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million - that's a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania. -- Bob Brown
Brethren, the Deity was not revealed to gratify our curiosity, or to increase our pride of intellect, but to bring us into relations of affection, submission, and communion with Him. -- Edward Norris Kirk
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
The expression "follow the Brethren" has a broader meaning than some would apply to it. It means not only to agree with the counsel given to the Church by the Brethren, but also to follow their example in appearance and deportment. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Oh, Brethren, what is the result of pride? Oh, see what humility can do? What was the need for all these sufferings? For, if from the beginning Man had humbled himself, obeyed God, and kept the commandment he would not have fallen. -- Dorotheus of Gaza
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
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.
To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General (33rd Degree Masons), we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and 30th degrees: 'The Masonic religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine.' -- Albert Pike
We need to pray for our brethren around the world. -- Monica Johnson
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. -- Thomas Paine
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
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
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
God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother. -- Giuseppe Mazzini
You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you. -- George Whitefield
Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance. -- Ellen G. White
Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free. -- Jupiter Hammon
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
How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering. -- Julius Gordon
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
With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature. -- Robert Toombs
My appeal to the rich is, Deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the cause of God. The worthy poor, who are made poor by misfortune and sickness, deserve your especial care and help. -- Ellen G. White
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.
I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors. -- King George V
The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families. -- Jeremy Rifkin
I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' Matthew 25:40. -- Elizabeth Warren
Jordan seeks to play only one role, that of a model state. It is our aim to set an example for our Arab brethren, not one that they need follow but one that will inspire them to seek a higher, happier destiny within their own borders. -- King Hussein I
I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same. -- Mohammed Omar
Wishing to open my mouth, O brethren, and speak on the exalted theme of humility, I am filled with fear, even as a man who understands that he is about to discourse concerning God with the art of his own words. For humility is the raiment of the Godhead. -- Isaac of Nineveh
When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
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
To consider mankind other than brethren...plainly supposes a darkness of understanding. -- John Woolman
Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards! -- Charles Spurgeon
Queer Eye is a makeover show, meant to help our straight brethren. -- Kyan Douglas
The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country. -- Abraham Verghese
Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren. -- William Tyndale
Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me. -- Mother Teresa
Our Lord Jesus Christ , my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee. -- Homer
In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity -- Martin Luther
Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow. -- Colman McCarthy
Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create. -- Abraham Cowley
Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
I want my sex to claim nothing from their brethren but what their brethren may justly claim from them. -- Sarah Moore Grimke
For transformation to be successful, we the people must first liberate ourselves and our brethren from the clutches of religion. -- Sunday Adelaja
Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings -- George Whitefield
Do not trouble yourself for your brethren, for we have already provided lands for them, which they shall possess forever. -- Gaius Marius
The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal. -- Maurice Maeterlinck
What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren? -- Mahatma Gandhi
Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren. -- Jules Michelet
Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time. -- Henry Beston
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
Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to. -- William Shakespeare
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
Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory! -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Soon we will be in heaven and that opportunity will be over, let us not regret that we could have loved the brethren more. -- Greg Gordon
Give the brethren a chance to do something, anything, no matter how small or unimportant. A brother convinced that he is helpful is enthusiastic. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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
Jesus has very clearly said in the gospel. "Whatever you do, do to the least of my brethren." Clear? That was the work of Jesus. -- Mother Teresa
Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve. -- Dorothee Solle
6 weeks since the Rapture "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." Corinthians 15:50" -- Phillip W. Simpson
Blessed be the memory of those few brethren who contended so strenuously for their constitutional rights and religious freedom, against such an overwhelming force of desperadoes! -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading. -- Benedict of Nursia
Tennessee will not furnish a single man for coercion, but fifty thousand, if necessary, for the defense of our rights, or those of our Southern brethren. -- Isham G. Harris
Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white. -- Rachel Sklar
You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord. -- Charles Spurgeon
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
All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord. -- Charles Hodge
All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church, require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord. -- Charles Hodge
Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren. -- Thomas Sprat
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
I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire. -- Saint Patrick
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
This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme -- Charles Spurgeon
Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that "knowing this" in our spirit we may truly confess "that our old man has been crucified with him." -- Watchman Nee
Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community." A community is not an abstract ideal. -- Jean Vanier
It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people. -- Zebulon Pike
This is not a time for fear, brethren, but rather a time for faith?a time for each of us who holds the priesthood to be his best self. -- Thomas S. Monson
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
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
NOW, MY BRETHREN!" Poseidon's voice was so loud I wasn't sure if I was hearing it from the smoke image or from all the way across town. "STRIKE FOR OLYMPUS! -- Rick Riordan
The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win. -- Warren Buffett
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. -- Thomas Jefferson
But if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, they are your brethren in faith; and We make the communications clear for a people who know. (The Immunity 9.11) -- quran
Lift your worship off the ground to a higher ground where love abounds. One thing that hinders sincerity in the worship of God among brethren is insincere love among one another! -- Israelmore Ayivor
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
Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Fellow-Christians, do let us study the Bible portrait of the humble man. And let us ask our brethren, and ask the world, whether they recognize in us the likeness to the original. -- Andrew Murray
In everything that moves through the universe, I see my own body, and in everything that governs the universe, my own soul. All men are my brethren, and all things my companions. -- Zhang Zai
Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him; since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide. -- William Penn
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
Would to God, brethren, I could tell you WHO I am! Would to God I could tell you WHAT I know! But you would call it blasphemy and want to take my life! -- Sam Smith
For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think on these things. -- Anonymous
No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)? -- Saint Basil
In such a case, it would be almost sure of success, if the active members of a society established for that purpose, were inclined to meet the poor as men, as brethren, and as Christians. -- Joseph Lancaster
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
Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist. -- John Nelson Darby

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