Quotes About Neighbor

Better a near neighbour than a distant cousin.

Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can ... As a peace-maker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough

Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?

There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish

If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the creature instead of the Creator.

Do not desire your neighbor's wife in vain.

Cursed by its strategic location in eastern Europe, Poland had been invaded, sacked, and carved up many times, its borders ebbing and flowing; some village children learned five languages just to speak with neighbors. War wasn't something Antonina wanted to think about, especially since her last experience of war stole both of her parents, so she assured herself, as most Poles did, of their solid alliance with France, keeper of a powerful army, and Britain's sworn protection.

When I ignore my neighbor (instead of loving him or her as Jesus commands), I am rolling around in my old grave clothes, rather than living as a new creation.

The person who believes the sum of his morality involves gay marriage and abortion alone, and neglects health care and world trade and the environment and loving his neighbor and feeding the poor is, by definition, a theological liberal, because he takes what he wants from Scripture and ignores the rest.

For example, if we own a house-painting business, our customer's external problem might be an unsightly home. The internal problem, however, may involve a sense of embarrassment about having the ugliest home on the street. Knowing this, our marketing could offer "Paint That Will Make Your Neighbors Jealous.

Jesus throws down the dividing prejudices of nationality and teaches universal love, without distinction of race, merit or rank. A man's neighbor is everyone who needs help. ~J.C. Geikie

Love God, and love your neighbor as yourself—that is the heart of the Christian message. Everything else is commentary.

The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.

The man of today is no longer able to understand his neighbor because his profession is his whole life, and the technical specialization of this life has forced him to live in a closed universe.

Chère Marika, Le vieux Volks n'est pas là, et moi non plus, mais vous pouvez entrer quand même. Ça me réjouirait le coeur de savoir que vous êtes entrée, que vous avez bu du café ou du chocolat et mangé des biscuits, assise à ma place ou encore debout en regardant par la fenêtre. Simplement de savoir que vous êtes venue, je serais heureux. Même sans vous voir. A bientôt. Votre voisin, Jim

I am happy the leaves are growing large so quickly. Soon they will hide the neighbor and her screaming child.

The text was Jesus' commandment from the twelfth chapter of Mark to love thy neighbor as thyself. Dominie said that loving our neighbor didn't necessarily mean we must feel loving emotions toward them, but that we must speak lovingly to them, rather than in anger or derision. And we must do acts of lovingkindness and compassion, deliberately and frequently, demonstrating the undeserved grace God shows to us.

Mrs. Vanlandingham from across the street heard the commotion and came running, still holding a dish towel. She arrived just as the sheriff, Nix Gridley, wheeled into the parking lot and slid in the gravel.

England was so much richer and more powerful than its northern neighbor.

I consider the trumpet a good investment, although our neighbor, Miss Annie, does not. If she beats on my shutters again, I'll pour water on her.

To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.