Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence. — Carl Sandburg
Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. — Mae West
You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart. — W. H. Auden
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. — Baal Shem Tov
Dost thou wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to thy neighbor. — Saint John Chrysostom
We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love. — Vincent de Paul
Loving God and loving one's neighbor are really the same thing. — Brother Lawrence
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. — John Locke
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. — Alfred Adler
Do not plot harm against your neighbor, who lives trustfully near you. — Jewish Proverbs
We need to remember that though we make our friends, God has made our neighbors – everywhere. Love should have no boundary; we should have no narrow loyalties. — Howard W. Hunter
A good neighbour is better than a brother far off. — Danish Proverbs
It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor. — Martin Luther
The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him. — Mahatma Gandhi
Do you love your creator Love your fellow-beings first. — Muhammad
Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace. — Barry McGuire
A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it. — Arthur Baer
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. — Eric Hoffer
Love Thy Neighbor Image Quotes
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.
Love Your Neighbor Quotes
If you are not concerned about your neighbor's salvation, then I am concerned for yours. — Ray Comfort
The surest way to determine whether one possesses the love of God is to see whether he or she loves his or her neighbor. These two loves are never separated. Rest assured, the more you progress in love of neighbor the more your love of God will increase. — Teresa of Avila
I don't have a religion. I ain't nothing wrong with church as long as they selling chicken. Cause I read the Quran, I read the Kabalah, I read the Bible. They all got the same three basic principles: Love God, love your neighbor as yourself, and...As far as me being, I live by those principles. — Kevin Gates
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
You are obliged to love your neighbor as yourself, and loving him, you ought to help him spiritually, with prayer, counseling him with words, and assisting him both spiritually and temporally, according to the need in which he may be, at least with your goodwill if you have nothing else. — St. Catherine of Siena
Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty. — Girolamo Savonarola
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man. — Pablo Casals
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. — C. S. Lewis
Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. — Mother Teresa
The great thing about civility is that it does not require you to agree with or approve of anything. You don't even have to love your neighbor to be civil. You just have to treat your neighbor the same way you would like your neighbor to treat your grandmother, or your child. — Barbara Brown Taylor
I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out of love for me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse yourself from it. — Sayings
Love Your Neighbor As Yourself Quotes
If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it. — Bruce Cockburn
If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony. — Paul Valery
The only time you should look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them. — Louis C. K.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself. — Thomas Jefferson
What I believe in is love your neighbor as yourself and don't call him stupid because they don't agree with you politically. — Bill Maher
What you must do is love your neighbor as yourself. There is no one who knows your many faults better than you! But you love yourself notwithstanding. And so you must love your neighbor, no matter how many faults you see in him. — Martin Buber
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
When you love the Lord, you long to glorify Him and see the nations fall at His feet in worship. When you love your neighbor as yourself, you share the gospel with him and seek to meet his needs in every way you can, which includes seeing him fall at Jesus' feet in thanksgiving for salvation. — David Sills
Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor. — Benjamin Disraeli
Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor. — Timothy Keller
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. — Nicolas Chamfort
Neighbor Love Quotes
If we wish to serve God and love our neighbor well, we must manifest our joy in the service we render to Him and them. Let us open wide our hearts. It is joy which invites us. Press forward and fear nothing. — Katharine Drexel
What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. — Robert E. Lee
On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love. — Edith Stein
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors. — Frank Sinatra
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. — General Robert E. Lee
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. — Robert E. Lee
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything. — Teresa of Avila
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out. — Robert Frost
The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it. — Barbara Brown Taylor
The religion I have to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest. — Daniel Boone
Loving Your Enemies Quotes
Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you. — Friedrich Nietzsche
And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself. — Kahlil Gibran
If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies. — Malcolm X
The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters. — Genghis Khan
You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems. — Malcolm X
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself. — Bill Murray
Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better. — Edward W. Howe
To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect. — Oren Arnold
Love your enemies and hate your friends, your enemies remain the same your friends always change — 50 Cent
Love Your Enemies Quotes
You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that. — Jeannette Walls
The best gifts to give: To your friend, loyalty; To your enemy, forgiveness; To your boss, service; To a child, a good example; To your parents, gratitude and devotion; To your mate, love and faithfulness; To all men and women, charity. — Oren Arnold
Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are. — Carl Schmitt
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. — Benjamin Franklin
Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist. — Bo Burnham
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. — Winston Churchill
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith. — Miroslav Volf
Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends. — John Ashcroft
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
They say love thy neighbor as thy self , what am I supposed to do jerk him off too? — Rodney Dangerfield
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself. — Eleanor Roosevelt
The Declaration of Independence has established certain moral confines, and governs in a manner consistent with the spirit under which our nation was founded: Love God; love thy neighbor as thyself. — Jeremiah Denton
I am puzzled by people today who, after moralizing about the need for cooperation and goodwill and love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself, suddenly invoke the most primitive, barbarous motivations for any kind of progress. — Murray Bookchin
Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. — Charles Darwin
When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul. — Abraham Lincoln
But the Good Book said a lot of things. Like 'love thy neighbor' and ' do unto others as you would have them do unto you'. If nothing else, wasn't the message of the Good Book to live and let live? So how could the Crosses call themselves 'God's chosen' and still treat us the way they did? — Malorie Blackman
His motto is "Love Thy Neighbor". His neighbor is an 18 year old hooker. — Henny Youngman
If thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbor, in vain thou professest thy love to God; for by thy love to God, the love to thy neighbor is begotten, and by the love to thy neighbor thy love to God is nourished. — Francis Quarles
Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge. — John Ray
You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love. — Pearl S. Buck
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Roman 13:9 — Bible
Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand. — Robert Breault
Love thy neighbor -- but don't pull down your hedge. — Benjamin Franklin
Love thy neighbor but keep your high. — Unknown
There is an old adage: love thy neighbor, but don't get caught. — Jerry Lawler
Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood. — Louise Beal
In the electoral campaign, President Bush named as the most important person in his life Jesus . Now he has a unique chance to prove that he meant it seriously: for him, as for all Americans today, "Love thy neighbor!" means "Love the Muslims!" OR IT MEANS NOTHING AT ALL. — Slavoj Žižek
If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own. — Audrey Hepburn
And it is so simple... The one thing is - love thy neighbor as thyself - that is the one thing. That is all, nothing else is needed. You will instantly find how to live. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf. — Confucius
I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
o the gay community I apologize if I did something, but all I said was I was against same-sex marriage. But I am not condemning you. My favorite expression is, 'Love one another…as you love yourself, love thy neighbor.' — Manny Pacquiao
Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor. — Karl Kraus
Love thy neighbor is more than a divine truth. It is a pattern for perfection. — Thomas S. Monson
The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it. Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood. — Louise Lester
Love thy neighbor is difficult. That's why everybody - wars, you know. It's the hardest. And it's the most important. And respect thy neighbor. Love and respect. It means respect, really. Respect thy neighbor. Respect the other, the different. — Helen Mirren
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Every single human being is trying his best. We're all doing the best we can. But when we believe what we think, we have to live out those thoughts. When there's chaos in our heads, there's chaos in our lives. When there's hurt in our thinking, there's hurt in our lives. Love thy neighbor as thyself? I always have. When I hated me, I hated you. That's how it works. If I hate someone, I'm mistaking them for me, and solutions remain hidden. — Byron Katie
I am convinced that the moment is coming when, with its message of eternal, universal values, it will come to the aid of our society. For in these words: "Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," lie those very moral principles that will enable us to survive even the most critical situations. — Boris Yeltsin
Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones. — A. J. Jacobs
Always trust your fellow man. And always cut the cards. Always trust God. And always build your house on high ground. Always love thy neighbor. And always pick a good neighborhood to live in. — Robert Fulghum
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