Quotes about Neighbor

When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.

If your next-door neighbor's house is on fire, you don't want the fire department dispatcher asking whether it was caused by lightning or by someone smoking in bed before agreeing to send a fire truck; you just want the fire put out before it reaches your house.

What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one another by turning to the Bible: defending the dried ink marks on the page becomes more vital than defending the neighbor. As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, 'People of the Book risk putting the book above people.

We only knew, somewhat abstractly, we were going to spend a year integrating our food choices with our family values, which include both "love your neighbor" and "try not to wreck every blooming thing on the planet while you're here.

It is nobler to love the person next to you than to love mankind in general.

What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.

Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.

The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as his own.

True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.

To do any less than to make Him known is to fail to really love our neighbors.

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.