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Quotes About Neighbor

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
~ Teresa of Avila
As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord.
~ Irenaeus of Lyons
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.
~ Baal Shem Tov
He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.
~ Venerable Bede
Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.
~ Carl Sandburg
The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God.
~ Martin Buber
Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.
~ Girolamo Savonarola
I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.
~ John Green
Cordial love of the neighbor does not consist in feelings. This love flows not from a heart of flesh but from the heart of our will.
~ Jane Frances de Chantal
Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.
~ Aelred of Rievaulx
If evangelism isn't an expression of love of neighbor, it isn't Christian evangelizing. And love of neighbor includes not only what I say to the neighbor but how I say that.
~ Miroslav Volf
The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
~ Brennan Manning
Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.
~ Dorothy Day
The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.
~ George MacDonald
The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
~ G.I. Gurdjieff
My next door neighbor just had a pacemaker installed. They're still working the bugs out, though. Every time he makes love, my garage door opens.
~ Bob Hope
If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.
~ Paul Valery
Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about... jeez, I guess it was when I was doing 'Christmas Vacation', so I was about 13 or 14.
~ Johnny Galecki
If we be never obliged to relieve others' burdens, but when we can do it without burdening ourselves, then how do we bear our neighbor's burdens, when we bear no burden at all?
~ Jonathan Edwards
No one can live happily who has regard to himself alone and transforms everything into a question of his own utility; you must live for your neighbour, if you would live for yourself. —SENECA
~ Jonathan Haidt
if there were a genuine knight of faith in our midst we would be unlikely to recognize him: in terms of outward appearance, he is just another one of our neighbors taking a stroll in the park.
~ Jonathan Lear
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
~ Jonathan Swift