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Quotes About Neighbor

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. -Galatians 5:14
~ Bible
Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.
~ Peter Ustinov
Don't you care that your neighbors are suffering?" "In a word, no. The Bible says that the poor will always be with us, and if Jesus couldn't change that, I certainly can't.
~ Mary Jo Putney
Sharing is one of the most challenging social skills for all children to learn. The limits are so unclear. Moms and Dads don't share their cars with the neighbors, and yet kids are supposed to. Mom takes a sip of Dad's soda, but a toddler isn't supposed to snitch a drink from someone else's bottle. We share some things but not everything. It is all very confusing.
~ Unknown
For myself I am certain that the good of human life cannot lie in the possession of things which for one man to possess is for the rest to lose, but rather in things which all can possess alike, and where one man's wealth promotes his neighbor's.
~ Unknown
At the heart of the Torah, in the middle of the book of Leviticus, we find the commandment, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself" (19:18).
~ Massimo Pigliucci
Envy is grieving at the good of another, than which no sin is more offensive to God, nor more injurious to our neighbour and ourselves.
~ Matthew Henry
Boredom is a manifestation of selfishness. It can only occur when we are overly focused on ourselves. It always means that we have set God and neighbor aside to focus exclusively on ourselves, and that is never a recipe for happiness.
~ Matthew Kelly
To love one's neighbour in the immovable depths means to love in others that which is eternal; for one's neighbour, in the truest sense of the term, is that which approaches the nearest to God; in other words, all that is best and purest in man; and it is only by ever lingering near the gates I spoke of, that you can discover the divine in the soul.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab down the block. If suddenly it's the Arab in your backyard , you can't be worrying about the People's Republic of China and if one day the ChiComs show up at your front door with an eviction notice in one hand and a Molotov cocktail in the other, then the last thing you're going do is look over his shoulder for a walking corpse.
~ Max Brooks
The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.
~ Max Frisch
The community had remained "remarkably healthy" during the family's stay, according to Dr. Peabody, except for one profitable outbreak of smallpox in a neighboring town.
~ Unknown
Our neighbour's tree is our tree; our tree is our neighbour's tree!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Some packages are wrapped in brown paper and go tick, tick, tick. Those you throw over a bad neighbor's fence.
~ Unknown
What happened to Love comes in all kinds of packages?" "Some packages are wrapped in brown paper and go tick, tick, tick. Those you throw over a bad neighbor's fence.
~ Unknown
for Paul the cross is the quintessential, unified act of loyalty to God and love for others—what Paul, like Jesus, understands to be the essence of the Jewish Law, the covenant obligations for God's people to love God and neighbor.8 This perspective will form the foundation of Paul's understanding of the appropriate human response to the gospel—a unified response of faith and love—as God's way of forming a (new) covenant community.
~ Unknown
The real test of progress is how we love God and our neighbor. Everything else is fluff, and potentially dangerous fluff, at that. It gets in the eyes, so that we no longer see clearly as God sees
~ Unknown
Uno cobra conciencia de sí mismo en su relación con el prójimo; y por eso la relación con el prójimo es insoportable.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Something good had come of the accident – he had met one of his neighbours.
~ Michel Houellebecq
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~ Michel Tournier
Ama a tu prójimo como a ti mismo", se nos dijo, presuponiendo que cada cual se ame a sí mismo; y no se nos dijo: "Ámate.". Y sin embargo no sabemos amarnos.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
MCs center their rhythms on growing in relationship with God (UP), with one another (IN), and with those they are reaching out to (OUT). This is community life centered on the Great Commandment and the Great Commission: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind soul and strength" (UP). "Love your neighbor as yourself" (IN). "Go and make disciples of all people groups" (OUT).
~ Unknown
We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.
~ Miranda July
A neighbor with a green thumb and no yard. That's all. Would this be the first of many awakenings?
~ Miranda July