Neighbors Quotes Page 2

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.

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.

Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius;

but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

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

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

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.

No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy.

They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

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.

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

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

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

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.

I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine.

... I only know two types of wine - red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries - industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

Faith is not limited to affirming the existence of God.

No, faith tells us that God loves us and demands a loving response. This response is given through love for human beings, and that is what we mean by a commitment to God and to our neighbor.

By learning to yield to the loving authority of his parents, a child learns to submit to other forms of authority which will confront him later in his life — his teachers, school principal, police, neighbors and employers.

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.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Help me, O Lord, that my hands may be merciful and filled with good deeds, so that I may do only good to my neighbors.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.

The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement.

All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you

I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.

Good fences make good neighbors.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

In 1939 Winston Churchill, describing the 5000-mile peaceful border dividing Canada and the United States, said, 'That long frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded only by neighborly respect and honorable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?