Quotes About Brethren

The young woman continued to frown, displaying her irritation. 'You would continue on and leave one of our brethren in this manner? Unblessed and unburied?' Her voice was sharp and angry.

Many people assume that leaving a cult like the Brethren must be exhilarating. 'You had no TV or pop music or cinema,' they say, 'and then you did? It must have been amazing!' But when you see interviews with people who have recently left cults, they describe feeling bewildered and frightened; their eyes dart around, searching for points of reference, metaphors that would get somewhere close to describing the feeling of being lost, not-at-home, without walls.

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

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.

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.

But none of the moderns have equalled the Moravian Brethren in this good work; they have sent missions to Greenland, Labrador, and several of the West-Indian Islands, which have been blessed for good. They have likewise sent to Abyssinia, in Africa, but what success they have had I cannot tell.

He lays on Peter: "When thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren." Jesus expects the frail disciple to become strong in grace, and so able and willing to help the weak. He cherishes this expectation with respect to all, but specially in regard to Peter, assuming that the weakest might and ought eventually to become the strongest; the last first, the greatest sinner the greatest saint; the most foolish the wisest, most benignant, and sympathetic of

The work of God needs to be done. Souls must not perish while you give your attention to your worldly business or worldly pleasure, take your ease, or quarrel with your brethren.

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!

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."

Nature does require Her time of preservation, which perforce I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal Must give my attendance to.

The Brethren? Whatever for? Do they wash a lot? Baptisms, wet clothes, that sort of thing?' 'Of course not. It was a museum piece; they took it off to sell it. They're very keen on money. I think they're dishonest, too.

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

Familiars were known for their loose tongues until you cut them out. It was a practice Algaliarept frowned upon. Most of his brethren were bloody plebians. Removing a familiar's tongue completely ruined the nuances of their pleas for mercy.

For transformation to be successful, we the people must first liberate ourselves and our brethren from the clutches of religion.

If you, my brethren, are quick to comprehend, and if you love the truth, you will treasure up these things and ponder them in your hearts, and when you are asked with regard to them they will be revealed to you.

Those of the South had no material cause of complaint; but, actuated by sympathy for their Northern brethren, and a devotion to the principles of civil liberty and community independence, which they had inherited from their Anglo-Saxon ancestry, and which were set forth in the Declaration of Independence, they made common cause with their neighbors, and may, at least, claim to have done their full share in the war that ensued.

To the degree that we abide in Him, Jesus will use us to intercede. For this reason, His Church is called to be a "house of prayer for all the nations" (Mark 11:17). Satan is called "the accuser of our brethren…who accuses them before our God day and night" (Rev. 12:10). To the degree that the enemy has access to our lives, he will use us to accuse and criticize the brethren.

The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren. Not in the former but in the latter is the lack.

My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself.

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.

Personally, I am a nationalist, but my race is my nation, and I see all true Europeans as my racial brethren and part of my nation, be them Norwegian, Danish, or Swedish, French, German, or English, Russian, Polish, or Belorussian, or whatever.

I take a firm stand against sequels. My industry brethren are a little shocked at how firmly I'm committed to not doing sequels.

Wild geese have so much less fat than their domestic brethren that, as far as the kitchen is concerned, the two birds should be considered different species altogether - so much so that they require opposite roasting methods.