Quotes About Neighbor

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

Si c'est un homme, c'est mon prochain, pas mon lointain.

Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

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in a land without a sovereign, Hobbes learned, every man lives in fear and makes war upon his neighbor.

His definition of neighbor was simple: the person you happen to be with at the moment—whether that person is a Samaritan, a hermit bearing gifts, or a television viewer.

At the center of Fred's theology of loving your neighbor was this: Every person is made in the image of God, and for that reason alone, he or she is to be valued—"appreciated," he liked to say. He believed there is sacredness in all creation—including fallen man—because of one Man, "the true light, which enlightens everyone" (John 1:9, NRSV).

Fred rightly reasoned that if we accept ourselves we are better equipped to accept our neighbor.

For Fred, this practical outworking of loving our neighbor-using not only our heart and eyes but our hands-is what defined a hero: 'To see people who will notice a need in the world and do something about it, and rather than view it with despair they view it with hope-that to me is such an enormous gift in this life. Those are my heroes.

I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

Conversion is a matter of the heart, not of the academy; polemics function more to "speak to the choir" and shore up internal unity rather than to facilitate understanding, let alone to show love of neighbor.

The Incarnation teaches that the divine takes on human flesh, and so that human body is of value. When we look at the face of our neighbor, or at our own images in the mirror, we see the face of the divine. And so, do we care for our bodies? This is Lent, the time when Christians around the world participate in acts of self-denial. Perhaps this is a time when those who enter into Lent start to think more seriously about how and what and with whom they eat.

From one people, faithful to the Torah, come the messages, "You must love your neighbor as yourself," and "Any immigrant who lives with you must be treated as if they were one of your citizens" (Leviticus 19:18, 34). When these commandments are kept, by all who hold the text as sacred, the hungry are fed.

Every two weeks, I'd get a small pay-check and notice the line where federal and state income taxes were deducted from my wages. At least as often, our drug-addict neighbor would buy T-bone steaks, which I was too poor to buy for myself but was forced by Uncle Sam to buy for someone else.

Everyone says I'm like the girl next door... Y'all must have really weird neighbors!

Everybody always says that I'm the girl next door, which makes me think that y'all must have a lot of weird next-door neighbours.

If you love your neighbor and are compassionate, are you automatically a Christian? Practicing present-moment awareness does not entail joining any religion or accepting any belief system.

When we are truly praying, then we can begin to see Christ in our neighbour; when we are really praying, we can begin to live for the Father.

How could we claim to love our neighbour while at the same time praying for God to destroy them?

I cannot speak for Jesus, but I can quote his teachings, and he said, 'Love your neighbor as yourself'... How would he react to me playing Jesus? He wouldn't judge it. He wouldn't judge his own enemy... Playing this part highlights his teaching in a very nice way.

Gage wants to know more about his neighbor, Miss Dupree the one who keeps getting undressed at night with the curtains open and the lights on.In mock horror,Parker swung in his chair. Hey! you and Ashley are Gage's neighbors!

Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.