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
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 Neighbors Quotes
God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does. — Martin Luther
If you are not concerned about your neighbor's salvation, then I am concerned for yours. — Ray Comfort
What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. — 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
He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor. — Venerable Bede
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for. — Voltaire
The neighbor’s chicken is a duck. — Bulgarian Proverbs
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. — Harry S. Truman
I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart. — John Green
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
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
Good fences make good neighbors.
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
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
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
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
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 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
Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor. — Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
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
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
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. — Martin Buber
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
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
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
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. — Benjamin Franklin
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
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
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. — Confucius
What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors? — J. K. Rowling
The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor. — Socrates
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. — Benjamin Franklin
There are some of us who think to ourselves, 'If I had only been there! How quick I would have been to help the Baby. I would have washed His linen. How happy I would have been to go with the shepherds to see the Lord lying in the manger!' Why don't we do it now? We have Christ in our neighbor. — Martin Luther
The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish. — Otto von Bismarck
Seek refuge in Mary because she is the city of refuge. We know that Moses set up three cities of refuge for anyone who inadvertently killed his neighbor. Now the Lord has established a refuge of mercy, Mary, even for those who deliberately commit evil. Mary provides shelter and strength for the sinner. — Anthony of Padua
They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse. — Sitting Bull
Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook. — Chinua Achebe
A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so far away that a child cannot shout to the yard of his neighbor. — Julius Nyerere
We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously. — Grace Lee Boggs
The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. — Napoleon Hill
It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. — Sitting Bull
We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to bring the neighbor back into our hoods, not only in our inner cities but also in our suburbs, our gated communities, on Main Street and Wall Street, and on Ivy League campuses. — Grace Lee Boggs
My next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration. — Gary Johnson
If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner. — Hammurabi
My neighbor has two dogs. One of them says to the other, "Woof!" The other replies, "Moo!" The dog is perplexed. "Moo? Why did you say 'Moo'?" The other dog says, "I'm trying to learn a foreign language." — Morey Amsterdam
Every occupation has its own honor before God. Ordinary work is a divine vocation or calling. In our daily work no matter how important or mundane we serve God by serving the neighbor and we also participate in God's on-going providence for the human race. — Martin Luther
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked. — Fulton J. Sheen
Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community. — Joan D. Chittister
What you yourself hate, don't do to your neighbor. This is the whole law; the rest is commentary. Go and study. — Hillel the Elder
In Community of Caring, we believe the quality of caring we give to our parents, to our brothers and sisters, to our families, to our friends and neighbors, and to the poor and the powerless endows a life, a community with respect, hope and happiness. — Eunice Kennedy Shriver
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