Quotes About Neighbor

Fourth-century preacher John Chrysostom said, "This is the rule of most perfect Christianity, its most exact definition, its highest point, namely, the seeking of the common good. For nothing can so make a person an imitator of Christ as caring for his neighbors.

It is written in the Didache, "There are two ways, one of life and one of death, but a great difference between the two ways. The way of life, then, is this: first, you shall love God who made you; second, love your neighbor as yourself, and do not do to another what you would not want done to you.

When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor, for it is not he that you wrong: You wrong yourself.

Borrow neither money nor time from your neighbor; both are of equal value.

The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own.

To share your food with your neighbour is a kind act of bonding.

Nikki lives around the corner from me and I see him all the time. We talk a lot, and of course we're still friends. That was our baby, Motley Crue, we put that band together.

With increasingly money-based interactions among strangers, people increasingly began to think of neighbours as potential trading partners rather than potential prey. Killing the shopkeeper makes no sense.

Later, we all wondered how it was that our concern was not so much for our lives or for the fact that five armed strangers were using our house for a shooting match with a neighbor who was also armed and hiding somewhere in our garden. We, like all normal Iranian citizens, were guilty and had something to hide: we were worried about our satellite dish.

If your next-door neighbor's house is on fire, you don't want the fire department dispatcher asking whether it was caused by lightning or by someone smoking in bed before agreeing to send a fire truck; you just want the fire put out before it reaches your house.

What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one another by turning to the Bible: defending the dried ink marks on the page becomes more vital than defending the neighbor. As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, 'People of the Book risk putting the book above people.

We only knew, somewhat abstractly, we were going to spend a year integrating our food choices with our family values, which include both "love your neighbor" and "try not to wreck every blooming thing on the planet while you're here.

Little Timmy was digging a big hole in his backyard when the next-door neighbor looked over. "Why are you digging that huge hole?" he asked. "My ferret died," Little Timmy replied, throwing another shovel full of dirt over his shoulder. "But why are you making the hole so big?" the neighbor asked. "Because your dog ate it," Little Timmy replied.

It has been said that according to ancient designations, as well as its possession of the Indus River, Pakistan has a better claim to be called "India" than its neighbor.)

What I believe in is love your neighbor as yourself and don't call him stupid because they don't agree with you politically.

They say love thy neighbor as thy self , what am I supposed to do jerk him off too?

It is nobler to love the person next to you than to love mankind in general.

To love my neighbor is to assist the arising and unfolding in him of that which can harmonize the real elements of his nature.

The Declaration of Independence has established certain moral confines, and governs in a manner consistent with the spirit under which our nation was founded: Love God; love thy neighbor as thyself.

If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too.

Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

Our responsibility is to love God and to love our neighbour which is what Jesus taught and it's also what Judaism taught - and that would make sense because Jesus was Jewish.