Spiritual Brother Quotes

#1. Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.

Henry Ward Beecher

#2. Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

Joyce Meyer

#3. We must, nevertheless, always work at it, because not to advance in the spiritual life is to go back.

Brother Lawrence

#4. Books. They tumbled from the bleeding sky like wounded birds. The spines snapping open and the pages fanning white. Black letters slipping off the slanted pages and falling, falling to the ground where they ... Shatter.

Natasha Mostert

#5. It can happen that when we are at prayer some brothers come to see us. Then we have to choose either to interrupt our prayer or to sadden our brother by refusing to answer him. But love is greater than prayer. Prayer is one virtue among others, whereas love contains them all.

John Climacus

#6. The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deployments.

Robert D. Kaplan

#7. LIFE" made it possible, "DEATH" made it necessary!

Harold S. Kushner

#8. For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. -John, Apostle (and brother?) of Jesus, The Bible (RSV, non-Catholic), 3:16

John Apostle

#9. For things will never be perfect, until human beings are perfect - which I don't expect them to be for quite a number of years!

Thomas More

#10. The brother is a burden to the Christian, precisely because he is a Christian. For the pagan the other person never becomes a burden at all. He simply sidesteps every burden that others may impose upon him.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#11. The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential brothers and sisters.

Malidoma Patrice Some

#12. It is not your job to convince men to like you.

Maggie Young

#13. We have a spiritual responsibility to be consciously grateful because that energy's frequency flows from us and assists in our own healing, our brother's and sister's healing, and ultimately the healing of the planet, our EarthMother.

Louise Hay

#14. Large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant to be a constitutional bulwark.

James Madison

#15. Try to gather the strength to live as brother and sister after one or two children are born. This is essential for reaping the full benefit of spiritual practice and to make spiritual progress through mental restraint.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#16. Although I may not be my brother's keeper, I am my brother's brother, and 'because I have been given much, I too must give.'

Jeffrey R. Holland

#17. I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.

Sharon Creech

#18. What if I was truly my brother's keeper? And what if I really loved my neighbor? And what if it really wasn't about me but about we - where would we be? The possibilities should blow your mind. But since it's not

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#19. Do not be satisfied with God's calling or His gifts in your life. Be satisfied with Jesus Christ Himself.

Brother Yun

#20. The most holy and necessary practice in our spiritual life is the presence of God. That means finding constant pleasure in His divine company, speaking humbly and lovingly with him in all seasons, at every moment, without limiting the conversation in any way.

Brother Lawrence

#21. I do my best to allow myself to really feel it [emotional pain]. Cry. Get all in it. Really experience my experience so that I may move through it. And talk about it. I try not to let anything get brushed over and swept under the rug.

Dash Mihok

#22. I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.

Ani DiFranco

#23. We see Serbs as our spiritual brothers. And that is what is at the base of our relations today and in the future.

Vladimir Putin

#24. Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

Saint Augustine

#25. Because, you see, the cruel gods are stronger than the kind gods, and they will always beat them in the end. You doubt it? Look at the world, my brother, my sister. And so the spirit of Roth is here with me also, and battles for my soul. And I don't know who will win.

Anthony McGowan

#26. Every praying person, every person who has an encounter with God, must have a passionate concern for his or her brother and sister, his or her neighbor. To treat any of these as if he were less than the child of God is to deny the validity of one's spiritual existence.

Desmond Tutu

#27. I'd rather be running the game than playing it.

Steven Brust

#28. When we place our faith in Christ, God becomes our Father, we become his children, other believers become our brothers and sisters, and the church becomes our spiritual family. The family of God includes all believers in the past, the present, and the future.

Rick Warren

#29. In the beginning [in older days], if I were to say something that hurt the other person, I would turn it around by telling him, 'Dear brother, my mind has been this way from the start!!!' So the other person then becomes happy.

Dada Bhagwan

#30. The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you

Brother Lawrence

#31. That we ought to give ourselves up to GOD, with regard both to things temporal and spiritual, and seek our satisfaction only in the fulfilling of His will, whether He lead us by suffering or by consolation, for all would be equal to a soul truly resigned

Brother Lawrence

#32. The word 'gratitude' is not part of the Hollywood dictionary.

Harry Cohn

#33. If a man sins and denies it, saying, 'I have not sinned,' do not correct him, or you will destroy any intention he might have of changing. If you say, 'Do not be cast down, my brother, but be careful about that in the future,' you will move his heart to repent.

Poemen

#34. To one full of love:
a stranger is his brother,
a stranger is his sister,
a stranger is his mother,
a stranger is his father.
To one full of self:
a stranger is a nuisance,
a stranger is an intruder,
a stranger is an adversary,
a stranger is a stranger.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#35. Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#36. Being a good person and helping others succeed even when you don't personally benefit is the undercurrent that powers social media networking.

Tom Martin