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Quotes About Neighbor

The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.
~ Richard Steele
No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear in your life, you should not allow the government to do it for you.
~ William E. Simon
Use your money to meet the need of your neighbor
~ Sunday Adelaja
A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
~ Sitting Bull
Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?
~ Charles Alexander Eastman
I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.
~ Mel Brooks
In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother.
~ Martin Chemnitz
One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.
~ Gore Vidal
Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor!
~ Sathya Sai Baba
I can love the whole world except my neighbor.
~ Dada Dharmadhikari
"Love covers a multitude of sins," (I Pet. 4:8). That is, for love towards one's neighbor, God forgives the sins of the one who loves.
~ Theophan the Recluse
It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Grass is always greener on your side, just switch places with your neighbor.
~ Saru Singhal, Rousing Cadence
You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.
~ W.H. Auden
Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An' raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
~ Robert Burns
Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
~ Pythagoras
His point: you don't have to travel the world to see the ways we mistreat one another; it's as close as the street outside our windows.
~ Will Schwalbe
There was no way to get around the fact that Jesus makes a very unnatural demand on His followers. He asks us to remain forever turned toward the Other, to seeing my worst enemy as my neighbor.
~ David Carlson
Aby Warburg est ainsi à l'origine d'un fonds bibliophilique inouï. Il a des théories sur le rangement des livres. Notamment celle du bon voisinage. Le livre que l'on cherche n'est pas forcément celui que l'on doit lire. Il faut regarder celui d'à côté.
~ David Foenkinos
Our vocation is a call to serve God and our fellow humans in the distinctive way that fits the shape of our being. In one way or another, Christian calling will always involve the care of God's creation and people. This realigns us to the created world and to our neighbor, moving us from self-centered exploitation to self-sacrificing service and stewardship.
~ David G. Benner