Quotes About Neighbor

We are all called to Christ-following and loving service of God and neighbor. But the specific call that is rooted in your unique identity, gifts and personality will be found as you come to know both God and self in Christian community.

Even in the Bible, the admonition in the Ten Commandments not to 'covet thy neighbor's wife' clearly referred not to lust in one's heart (adultery had already been covered in commandment number seven), but to the prospect of taking her as a debt-peon—in other words, as a servant to sweep one's yard and hang out the laundry.

Service of God consists in what we do to our neighbor.

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

The more one is united to his neighbor the more he is united to God.

What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.

It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.

If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbour, for in him God comes to you himself; such a man sees in his neighbour the material and spiritual need he is called to meet.

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.

Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.

The great end of all religionis to purify our hearts--and conquer our passions--and in a word, to make us wiser and better men--better neighbours--better citizens--and better servants of GOD.

If we were able to see God's image in our neighbor, do you think weapons and generals would be needed?

People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.

To climb ever closer to God is not to move away from our troubled and troubling neighbors, but closer to them.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God... Reverence to God and reverence for one's neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

How simple our Lord's word is, Love thy neighbor. Just think how that word has been twisted around, just because it's hard to love thy neighbor.

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

It is discouraging to try to be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood.

Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.

If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.