Top 288 Brethren Quotes & Sayings

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

My Brethren if thou endure thy trials well though shalt be exalted.

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

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

Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.

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.

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

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

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.

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

My goal was solely to fight against the aggressors, mainly the communists, who forbid my brethren to practice their religion.

We need to pray for our brethren around the world.

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.

The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa.

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.

Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God.

Give the brethren a chance to do something, anything, no matter how small or unimportant. A brother convinced that he is helpful is enthusiastic.

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!

Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!

Say: o brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.

Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.

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

Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.

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.

Brotherly love is not a tangible commodity. We cannot touch it or weigh it, smell it of taste it. Yet it is a reality; it can be creative, it can be fostered, it can be made a dynamic power. The Master who has it in his Lodge and his brethren will find that Lodge and brethren give it back to him. The Master too worried over the cares of his office to express friendliness need never wonder why his Lodge seems too cold to his effort.

I want my sex to claim nothing from their brethren but what their brethren may justly claim from them.

My favorite is Matthew 25: 'The Lord said, 'Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do to me.' I truly believe that.

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

Right is of no Sex-Truth is of no Color-God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.

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

Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren.

Country banks are more flexible in their lending policies than their city brethren are.

What people can excel our Northern and New England brethren in skill, invention, activity, energy, perseverance, and enterprise?

Brethren, the just man shall scarcely be saved. What, then, will become of the sinner?

Queer Eye is a makeover show, meant to help our straight brethren.

Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory!

Do not trouble yourself for your brethren, for we have already provided lands for them, which they shall possess forever.

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

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.

The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit

We behavioralists differ from our more traditional brethren in the way we characterize agents in the economy.

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.

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!

How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.

Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.

Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek.

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

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

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.

It doesn’t bother you that your canine brethren are being paraded around show rings like slaves?” “My canine brethren?” I said. “I don’thave any canine brethren.” “How can you say that! You’re a werewolf.” “That’s right. I’m a werewolf, not a poodle. What makes you think I have any kinship with dogs?

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

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.

Pluto and its brethren are the most populous class of planets in our solar system.

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.