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Quotes About Neighbor

Our membership in this Church . . . should never be any cause for self-righteousness, for arrogance, for denigration of others, for looking down upon others. All mankind is our neighbor.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.
~ Horace
My neighbor asked me if he could borrow my lawnmower. I told him he could — as long as he didn't take it out of my yard.
~ Author Unknown
nobody can live longer in peace than his neighbor chooses.
~ James Branch Cabell
The underlying message of the Neighborhood is that if somebody cares about you, it's possible that you'll care about others. 'You are special, and so is your neighbor' - that part is essential: that you're not the only special person in the world. The person you happen to be with at the moment is loved, too.
~ Fred Rogers
If you Profess to love God yet Hate your neighbour. This is called Deception
~ Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
~ Mother Teresa
English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
~ Rabih Alameddine
When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit of happiness, of joy, of cheerfulness. I am firmly convinced that in order to sing well, you must love your neighbor and be passionate about life.
~ Andrea Bocelli
To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
~ Quintilian
Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
~ Soren Kierkegaard
In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what does it matter, as long as he puts his garbage out on Tuesdays?
~ Hal Higdon
One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
true perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbor, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
~ Teresa of Avila
But here the Lord asks only two things of us: love for His Majesty and love for our neighbour. It is for these two virtues that we must strive, and if we attain them perfectly we are doing His will and so shall be united with Him.
~ Teresa of Avila
the Lord knows everyone as he really is and gives each his work to do -- according to what He sees to be most fitting for his soul, and for His own Self, and for the good of his neighbor.
~ Teresa of Avila
Let us realize, my daughters, that true perfection consists in the love of God and of our neighbour, and the more nearly perfect is our observance of these two commandments, the nearer to perfection we shall be.
~ Teresa of Avila
the Lord asks only two things of us: love for His Majesty and love for our neighbour.
~ Teresa of Avila
Mention not a blemish which is thy own in detraction of a neighbour.
~ The Talmud
We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves.
~ Thomas a Kempis
To account nothing of one's self, and to think always kindly and highly of others, this is great and perfect wisdom. Even shouldest thou see thy neighbor sin openly or grievously, yet thou oughtest not to reckon thyself better than he, for thou knowest not how long thou shalt keep thine integrity. All of us are weak and frail; hold thou no man more frail than thyself.
~ Thomas a Kempis
If he shall not lose his reward, who gives a cup of cold water to his thirst neighbor, what will not be the reward for those who, by putting good books into the hands of those neighbors, open to them the fountains of eternal life?" ~ Thomas À Kempis
~ Thomas a Kempis