Love Your Neighbor Quotes

• Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

  George Herbert

  Love, Life, Garden

  George Herbert (1877). “Beauties of Rev. George Herbert, A. M.”

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• Good fences make good neighbors.

  Robert Frost

  Alaska, Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder, Mind Your Own Business

  "MendingWall" l. 25 (1914)

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• Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.

  Bo Burnham

  Bible, Jesus, Kindness

  Song: Haikus Sonnet Shakespeare, Album: Words Words Words, 2010

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• 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

  Mother, Liars, Love You

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1979.

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• 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

  Children, Love You, Grandmother

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• The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Funny, Life

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, July 16, 1910.

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• Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God

  John the Apostle

  Love, Bible, Breaking Silence

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• God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Faith, God

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• Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Sister, Faith

  Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.48, Penguin

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• When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit of happiness, of joy, of cheerfulness. I am firmly convinced that in order to sing well, you must love your neighbor and be passionate about life.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Order, Goal, Giving

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• Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.

  C. S. Lewis

  War, Love You, Christian Love

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Stupid, Believe, Love You

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• 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

  Jesus, Love You, Biblical

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• Love your neighbor as yourself. That's what we need to adopt to be a better country.

  Brandon Marshall

  Country, Love You, Needs

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• When you pray either aloud or to yourself for others ? for instance, for the members of your household or for strangers, even though they may not have asked you to do so ? pray for them with the same ardor and zeal as you would pray for yourself. Remember the commandment of the law: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself' (Lev. 19:18). Observe this rule upon all occasions.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Love You, Law

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• The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Hate, Real

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

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• If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.

  Paul Valery

  Love You, Ego, Hateful

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• Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!

  Bob Goff

  Love You, Stuff, God Love

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• 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

  Love You, Long, Church

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• Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Love You, Parent

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.423

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• The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. ... Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself. ... The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. ... I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Love You, Men

  Letter to William Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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• Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Love You, Patriotism

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.423

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• 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

  Love, Religious, Secret

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Love Yourself, Literature

  "The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg".

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• 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

  Christian, Heart, Mean

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