Quotes about Kindred
He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
— Octavia Butler
but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.”
— Genesis 24:4
And he told me, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you may take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father’s house.
— Genesis 24:40
And when you go to my kindred, if they refuse to give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.’
— Genesis 24:41
Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”
— Genesis 31:3
Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’
— Genesis 32:9
I think it was a communication of the heart. When we kept quiet, our hearts discovered that they were kindred spirits.
— Desmond Tutu
Searching for our kindred dead isn't just a hobby. It is a fundamental responsibility for all members of the Church. We believe that life continues after death and that all will be resurrected.
— James Faust
Trust not to friends and kindred, neither do thou put off the care of thy soul's welfare til hereafter; for men will sooner forget thee than thou art aware of.
— Thomas a Kempis
The great vicarious work for our kindred dead in our temples demonstrates both the justice and the fairness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
— James Faust
Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.
— Charles Dickens
This World is one great City, and one if the substance whereof it is fashioned: a certain period indeed there needs must be, while these give place to those; some must perish for others to succeed; some move and some abide: yet all is full of friends--first God, then Men, whom Nature hath bound by ties of kindred each to each.
— Epictetus