Quotes about Brotherhood
Oral Roberts was a man of God and a great friend in ministry. I loved him as a brother.
- Billy Graham
Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.
- David O. McKay
The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
- Malcolm X
Men cannot be our enemies--even men called Vietcong! If we kill men, what brothers will we have left? With whom shall we live then?
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The truth I love in loving my brother cannot be something merely philosophical and abstract. It must be at the same time supernatural and concrete, practical and alive. And I mean these words in no metaphorical sense. The truth I must love in my brother is God Himself, living in him. I must seek the life of the Spirit of God breathing in him. And I can only discern and follow that mysterious life by the action of the same Holy Spirit living and acting in the depths of my own heart.
- Thomas Merton
The truth I must love in my brother is God Himself, living in him. I must seek the life of the Spirit of God breathing in him. And I can only discern and follow that mysterious life by the action of the same Holy Spirit living and acting in the depths of my own heart.
- Thomas Merton
If I am to love my brother, I must somehow enter deep into the mystery of God's love for him.
- Thomas Merton
If the deepest ground of my being is love, then in that very love and nowhere else will I find myself, the world, and my brother and sister in Christ. It is not a question of either-or but of all-in-one. It is not a matter of exclusivity and "purity" but of wholeness, wholeheartedness, unity, and of Meister Eckhart's gleichheit (equality) which finds the same ground of love
- Thomas Merton
We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven. Therefore we should be glad that we can be forgiven by our brothers. It is our forgiveness of one another that makes the love of Jesus for us manifest in our lives, for in forgiving one another we act towards one another as He has acted towards us.
- Thomas Merton
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
- James A. Garfield
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.
- Anonymous
You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here, too.
- Albert Schweitzer