Neighbor Quotes

If you are not concerned about your neighbor's salvation, then I am concerned for yours.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.

Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.

The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God.

You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!" "What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?

It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.

No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.

Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you anyway.

No man should live where he can hear his neighbor's dog bark.

My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage.

Dost thou wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to thy neighbor.

[Neighbor is] not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively seek.

The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it

O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round,
I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground,
Where thou may'st warble,
eat and dwell.

We conclude, therefore, that a Christian lives not in himself, but in Christ and in his neighbor. Otherwise he is not a Christian. He lives in Christ through faith, in his neighbor through love. By faith he is caught up beyond himself into God. By love he descends beneath himself into his neighbor.

All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.

Loving God and loving one's neighbor are really the same thing.

Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.

My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

Christ's indwelling presence has freed us from exclusive orientation toward ourselves and opened us up in two directions: toward God, to receive the good things in faith, and toward our neighbor, to pass them on in love.

No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine; could you be mine?

If we truly love God, we will express it by loving our neighbors, and when we truly love our neighbors, it expresses our love for God.

Your Lord is a God of mercy and bountifulness: be a source of mercy and bountifulness to your neighbors. If you will be such, you will find salvation yourself with everlasting glory.

Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible to love one's neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close.

If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."

We lead our lives well when we love God with our whole being and when we love neighbors as we (properly) love ourselves.

There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.

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

They say love thy neighbor as thy self , what am I supposed to do jerk him off too?

Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.

Someone who loves a neighbor allows him to be as he is, as he was, and as he will be.

COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.

There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.

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

One of the neighbors found Nasreddin scattering crumbs all around his house. "Why are you doing that?" he asked. "I'm keeping the tigers away," replied Nasreddin. "But there aren't any tigers around here," said the neighbor. "That's right," said Nasreddin. "You see how well it works?

Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.

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

Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

Be a good neighbor, and leave me alone.

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

Since you cannot control the weather, or the traffic, or the one you love, or your neighbors, or your boss, then you must learn to control you... the one whose response to the difficulties of life REALLY counts.

If your neighbors did an analysis of your life, what would they learn about the kingdom?