122 Love Your Neighbor Quotes

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Famous Love Your Neighbor Quotes

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence. - Carl Sandburg

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence. — Carl Sandburg

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 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

Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you — Luke the Evangelist

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

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

We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love. — Vincent de Paul

Dost thou wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to thy neighbor. — Saint John Chrysostom

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

Do you love your creator Love your fellow-beings first. — Muhammad

A good neighbour is better than a brother far off. — Danish 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

Short Love Your Neighbor Quotes

  • The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him. — Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love one another (His last words) — George Harrison
  • Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace. — Barry McGuire
  • It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor. — Martin Luther
  • 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
  • Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better. — Edward W. Howe

Love Your Neighbor Image Quotes

Love your neighbor quote Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.

Kindness Love Your Neighbor Quotes

Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist. — Bo Burnham

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.

Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand. — Robert Breault

Love your neighbor quote The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measur
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

In memory of Emily we would like everyone to go out and do random acts of kindness, random acts of love to your friends or your neighbors or your fellow students because there is no way to make sense of this. It's what Emily would have wanted. — Luis Gonzalez

Follow the Golden Rule. Be kind to your neighbors, love them as much as you would love yourself, do unto others. — Michael Jackson

Love Thy Neighbor Quotes

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

Love your neighbor quote Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.

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

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

Love your neighbor quote How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

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

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Roman 13:9 — Bible

Love Your Neighbor As Yourself Quotes

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

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

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

Love your neighbor quote If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.

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

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

Love your neighbor quote To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.

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

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

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

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

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. — Robert E. Lee

Love your neighbor quote Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

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

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

Love your neighbor quote I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.

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

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

Loving Your Enemies Quotes

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you. - Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy. - Frank Sinatra

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy. — Frank Sinatra

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

Love your neighbor quote The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

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

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

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

Love Your Enemies Quotes

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

Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. — Benjamin Franklin

Love your neighbor quote Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. — Winston Churchill

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

Love your neighbor quote A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.

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

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love? — Marilyn Manson

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle. — Soren Kierkegaard

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More Love Your Neighbor Quotes

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

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

This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful. — Sarah Ruhl

The doctrines of Jesus are simple and tend all to the happiness of man, that there is only one God and God is perfect. That God and man are one. That to love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself, is the sum of religion. These are the great points on which I endeavor to reform and live my life. — Thomas Jefferson

It is not enough for us to say: I love God, but I do not love my neighbour. St. John says you are a liar if you say you love God and you don't love your neighbour. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbour whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live. — Mother Teresa

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does. — Phil McGraw

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge. — English Proverbs

Learning how to love your neighbor requires a willingness to draw on the strength of Jesus Christ as you die to self and live for Him. Living in this manner allows you to practice biblical love for others in spite of adverse circumstances or your feelings to the contrary. — John C. Broger

My advice is: Don't take yourself too seriously, laugh a lot, enjoy your time with family, and appreciate the unique talents of others. Trust in God, love your neighbor, say you're sorry, forgive, and work hard. — Willie Robertson

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. — Saint Basil

Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff! — Bob Goff

Then I read this: “You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven” (Matthew 5:43-45). That's it! I was thunderstruck — Mosab Hassan Yousef

The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself. — Peter Kreeft

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

In faith, I'm a believer in the do's - you know, love your neighbor, love your enemy. I don't spend a lot of time thinking on the don'ts 'cause I can't get the do's right. — John Kasich

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia. — Brooks Atkinson

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. — C. S. Lewis

If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor. — Maurice Maeterlinck

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. — Nicolas Chamfort

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

You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Matthew 22:39 — Bible

The Church does an enormous amount of good, and it carries one of the most valuable messages imaginable - that you should love your neighbor as yourself, and that if you have two coats you should give one to the man who has none. — Anna Quindlen

When you hear that your neighbor or friend has reproached you in your absence or presence, then show love and praise him. — John Climacus

Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor. — Timothy Keller

Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize that every individual is your neighbor. The point is not to destroy concrete neighborhood in a fit of universalism but to expand the local neighborhood and embrace the universal neighborhood. — Peter Kreeft

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