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Quotes About Neighbor

What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.
~ Saint Basil
The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
~ St. Catherine of Siena
Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.
~ Timothy Keller
The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as his own.
~ Martin Luther
True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
~ Teresa of Avila
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
~ Joseph Butler
In faith, I'm a believer in the do's - you know, love your neighbor, love your enemy. I don't spend a lot of time thinking on the don'ts 'cause I can't get the do's right.
~ John Kasich
Follow the Golden Rule. Be kind to your neighbors, love them as much as you would love yourself, do unto others.
~ Michael Jackson
If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.
~ Audrey Hepburn
To do any less than to make Him known is to fail to really love our neighbors.
~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss
The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.
~ Clifton Fadiman
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
~ Ambrose Bierce
If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
~ Benjamin Franklin
When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.
~ C. S. Lewis
Benjamin Franklin once suggested that a newcomer to a neighbourhood ask a new neighbour to do him or her a favour, citing an old maxim: He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
~ Joseph Butler
Christian situation ethics has only one norm or principle or law...that is binding and unexceptionable, always good and right regardless of the circumstances. That is 'love' -- the agape of the summary commandment to love God and neighbor. Everything else without exception, all laws and rules and principles and ideals and norms, are only contingent, only valid if they happen to serve love in any situation.
~ Joseph Fletcher
The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.
~ Joseph Hall
There must be Someone in heaven who knows the truth about me,       in highest heaven, some Attorney who can clear my name — My Champion, my Friend,       while I'm weeping my eyes out before God. I appeal to the One who represents mortals before God       as a neighbor stands up for a neighbor.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
It is not allowable to love the Creation according to the purposes one has for it, any more than it is allowable to love one's neighbor in order to borrow his tools.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Because a loveless world," said Jesus, "is a sightless world. If anyone loves me, he will carefully keep my word and my Father will love him — we'll move right into the neighborhood! Not loving me means not keeping my words. The message you are hearing isn't mine. It's the
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.
~ Helmut Kohl