“O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each other, Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.” MenHeartPrayerBrotherWorshipDeedsPityFoldsLove Each OtherHymnsQuakerGod Is There Book:Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“Brother, you can believe in stones, as long as you don't throw them at me. You are free to worship whoever you want, but other people's beliefs are not your concern, whether they believe that the Messiah is God, son of Mary, or that Satan is God, son of Mary. Let people have their beliefs.” PeopleWantBelieveLongBeliefSonBrotherWorshipConcernStonesSatanMaryMessiah Author:Wafa Sultan
“The idea that the Lord our God is not a personage of tabernacle is entirely a mistaken notion. He was once a man. Brother Kimball quoted a saying of Joseph the Prophet, that he would not worship a God who had not a Father; and I do not know that he would if be had not a mother; the one would be as absurd as the other. If he had a Father, he was made in his likeness. And if he is our Father we are made after his image and likeness.” IfsKnowsMenMadeIdeasWould BeMotherFatherLordBrotherWorshipNotionAbsurdProphetMistakenOur Father Book:The Essential Brigham Young Source: The Essential Brigham Young
“For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there will I bow too; For no form of a god, and no fashion Man has made in his desperate passion, But is worthy some worship of mine; Not too hot with a gross belief, Nor yet too cold with pride, I will bow me down where my brothers bow, Humble, but open eyed.” MenMadeFormPassionBeliefFashionMinesBrotherPrideColdWorshipLowsHotHumbleWorthyMy BrotherDesperateBowsCreedsGrossShrinesOpen EyesTrue Worship Book:Selected letters of Don Marquis Source: Selected letters of Don Marquis
“I'm calling my initiative take the other to lunch. If you are a Republican, you can take a Democrat to lunch or if you're a Democrat, think of it as taking a Republican to lunch because there is no shortage of the other right in your own neighborhood, maybe that person who worships at the mosque or the church or the synagogue down the street or someone from the other side of the abortion conflict - or maybe your brother-in-law who doesn't believe in global warming.” IfsThinkingBelievePersonsLawSidesChurchStreetsBrotherCallingRepublicanConflictWorshipDemocratAbortionGlobal WarmingNeighborhoodLunchInitiativeIn-lawsShortageYour BrotherMosquesSynagogueBrother In Law Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and sisters miss the fact that there would be no black church if the white church wasn't political and racist in refusing to worship with us.” IfsFactsWould BeAmericaPoliticalBlackChurchWhiteMissingBrotherWorshipRacistPreacherBrothers And SistersPropheticBlack AmericaBlack ChurchJeremiah Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“I love you, my brother, whoever you are - whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers of the loving hand of the one supreme being, a hand extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, eager to receive all.” ChildrenHandsSpiritChurchPathLove YouBrotherPrayingWorshipFingersSupremeMy BrotherTemplesOfferingDiverseMosquesCompletenessSupreme BeingLoving Hands Author:Khalil Gibran
“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.” IfsChildrenPersonsSpiritualExistenceBrotherPrayingWorshipConcernTreatsPassionateDenyNeighborEncountersBrothers And SistersChild Of GodValidity Author:Desmond Tutu
“The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God's family, not only has he become our Father but every other Christian believer in the world, whatever his nation or denomination, has become our brother or sister in Christ. But it is no good supposing that membership of the universal Church of Christ is enough; we must belong to some local branch of it. Every Christian's place is in a local church. sharing in its worship, its fellowship, and its witness.” IfsWorldHas BeensEnoughChristianLife IsFatherNationsChristBornChurchBrotherWorshipUniversalAffairBelieverLocalsChristian LifeWitnessBranchesFellowshipOur FatherBorn AgainMembershipDenominationsSupposingLocal ChurchSupposing ThatChurch Of ChristSisters In Christ Author:John Stott