Neighbor Quotes - Page 36

• One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Men, Solitude

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• Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

  Francis of Assisi

  Humility, Men, Giving

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• It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals.

  Alphonsus Rodriguez

  Teaching, Mean, Eye

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• For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don't know my neighbors, where people don't necessarily care if they know their neighbors, I'm missing things that truly fed my soul when I was younger, the exchanges between people, the caring and the shared history with people.

  Sela Ward

  New York, Caring, People

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• The way we're going to get to understanding is for each man to open his heart and open his mind and look in himself as he looks at his neighbor.

  Pearl Bailey

  Heart, Men, Understanding

  Pearl Bailey (1969). “The raw Pearl”, Pocket

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• If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Done, Want, Christ

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• A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common.

  Wendell Berry

  Community, Environmental, Common

  Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

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• In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.

  Dan Miller

  Thinking, Alaska, Working Together

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• Since you cannot control the weather, or the traffic,
  or the one you love, or your neighbors, or your boss,
  then you must learn to control you...
  the one whose response to the difficulties of life REALLY counts.

  Jim Rohn

  Weather, Boss, One You Love

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 11, 2011

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• Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries -- all living sentient creatures.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Love, Country, Glowing

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• I hear the word 'tolerance'-tha t some people are trying to teach people to be tolerant of gays. I'm not satisfied with that word. I am gay, and I am not seeking to be 'tolerated'. One tolerates a toothache, rush-hour traffic, an annoying neighbor with a cluttered yard. I am not a negative to be tolerated.

  Chely Wright

  Gay, People, Tolerance

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• Habitat has opened up unprecedented opportunities for me to cross the chasm that separates those of us who are free, safe, financially secure, well fed and housed, and influential enough to shape our own destiny from our neighbors who enjoy few, if any, of these advantages of life.

  Jimmy Carter

  Opportunity, Destiny, Safe

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• Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

  Barry McGuire

  Religious, Hate, Doors

  Song: Eve Of Destruction

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• Some people automatically associate morality and altruism with a religious vision of the world. But I believe it is a mistake to think that morality is an attribute only of religion. We can imagine two types of spirituality: one tied to religion, while the other arises spontaneously in the human heart as an expression of love for our neighbors and a desire to do them good.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Mistake, Believe

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• Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

  Sappho

  Responsibility, Wealth, Virtue

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.85, Univ of California Press

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• We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.

  John Stott

  Jesus, Expression, World

  John Stott, Christopher J. H. Wright (2015). “Christian Mission in the Modern World”, p.29, InterVarsity Press

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• The purpose of life is to listen - to yourself, to your neighbor, to your world and to God and, when the time comes, to respond in as helpful a way as you can find ... from within and without.

  Fred Rogers

  God, Purpose, World

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.83, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Loving God and loving one's neighbor are really the same thing.

  Brother Lawrence

  Loving God

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Brother Lawrence Collection”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Risk, Prestige, Welfare

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we should still need tanks and generals?

  Mother Teresa

  Thinking, Tanks, Needs

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• To do any less than to make Him known is to fail to really love our neighbors.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Failing, Known

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• If we are truly disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, we will reach out with love and understanding to all of our neighbors at all times.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Jesus, Understanding, Christ

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• There is no greater love than that a man lays down his life for his neighbor. When you hear someone complaining and you struggle with yourself and do not answer him back with complaints; when you are hurt and bear it patiently, not looking for revenge; then you are laying down your life for your neighbor.

  Poemen

  Christian, Hurt, Revenge

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• As the world attracts us with its appearance, and abundance and variety, it is not easy to turn away from it unless in the beauty of things visible the Creator rather than the creature is loved; for, when He says, 'you shall love the Lord your God from all your heart, and from all your mind, and from all your strength' (Mt. 22:37), He wishes us in nothing to loosen ourselves from the bonds of His love. And when He links the love of our neighbor also to this command, He enjoins on us the imitation of His own goodness, that we should love what He loves and do what He does.

  Pope Leo I

  Christian, Heart, Mind

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• Worthless is the charity of the man who bestows it unwillingly, because material charity is not his, but God's gift, while only the disposition of the heart belongs to the man. This is why many charities prove almost worthless, for they were bestowed unwillingly, grudgingly, without respect for the person of our neighbor. So also the hospitality of many persons proves worthless because of their hypocritical vain-glorious behavior to their guests. Let us offer our sacrifices upon the altar of love to our neighbor, with heart-felt affection: 'for God loves a cheerful giver'

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Heart, Sacrifice

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