Neighbour Quotes - Page 6

• True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

  Teresa of Avila

  Perfect, God Love, Commandments

  St. Teresa of Avila (1921). “The Interior Castle, or the Mansions”, p.21, Library of Alexandria

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• Historically, and since, 1520, eighteen Treaties have been concluded between the Persian State and its western neighbours regarding its relations therewith including the question of borders. On all occasions, the Persian State chose the opportunity to violate the said Treaties whether by word or deed.

  Saddam Hussein

  Opportunity, Borders, Deeds

  Saddam Hussein (1981). “Statement of H.E. Mr. Saddam Hussein, President of the Republic of Iraq, on the Iraq-Iranian conflict: before the third summit meeting of the Islamic Conference, 19-22 Rabi'i-al Awal, 1401, 25-28 January, 1981, Saudi Arabia”

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• Since the release of my single 'Born To Try' I have been so busy completing the album as well as my busy Neighbours schedule I have not had much spare time. When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.

  Delta Goodrem

  Home, Family And Friends, Trying

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• There is no security for any power unless it be a security in which its neighbours have an equal share.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  Share, Equal, Defence

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• When possums were introduced in 1837 to start a fur industry, no one predicted that these Australian neighbours would naturalize with destructive enthusiasm, wreaking havoc on gardens and bush alike. Up to 20 million possums a year were killed during the height of the fur trade, but this barely checked their rapid expansion.

  Bee Dawson

  Garden, Years, Expansion

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• If we are true to Canada, if we do not desire to become part and parcel of these people, we cannot overlook this the greatest revolution of our times. Let us remember this, that when the three cries among our next neighbours are money, taxation, blood, it is time for us to provide for our own security.

  Thomas D'Arcy McGee

  Blood, People, Desire

  Legislative Assembly, February 9, 1865.

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• May we not say, that true zeal is not mostly charitable, but wholly so? That is, if we take charity in St. Paul's sense, for love; the love of God and our neighbour. For it is a certain truth, (although little understood in the world), that Christian zeal is all love. It is nothing else.

  John Wesley

  Christian, World, Charity

  John Wesley, Bp. John Emory, Thomas Jackson (1831). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Sermons”, p.289

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• All disasters stem from us. Why is there a war? Perhaps because now and then I might be inclined to snap at my neighbour. Because I and my neighbour and everyone else do not have enough love. Yet we could fight war and all its excrescences by releasing each day, the love which is shackled inside us, and giving it a chance to live.

  Etty Hillesum

  War, Fighting, Giving

  Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”

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• I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.

  Erich Fromm

  Thinking, People, Heaven

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• In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Lakes, Order

  "On Fredrick the Great" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1842.

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• From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Love, Hate, Two

  "Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review". Book by Thomas B. Macaulay, Vol. I, 1843.

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• As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Mean, Long, Doe

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• I mean, Robert Pattinson. No, I’m kidding, I shouldn’t say that. He’s actually really nice. My neighbour works with him and said he was a great guy. I don’t know to be honest, I don’t really model myself after anybody. You’re always just trying to create opportunities and be ready when those opportunities present themselves. I can’t look at anybody and think ‘I want to be Damian Lewis’ – I’d be setting myself up for failure.

  Diego Klattenhoff

  Nice, Mean, Thinking

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• But I was not obeying the first and greatest commandment - to love God first - nor is it clear that I was obeying the second - to love my neighbour. Hating the oppressors of my neighbour isn't perhaps quite what Christ had in mind.

  Sheldon Vanauken

  Hate, Mind, Firsts

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• A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we become fully Christian. I may repeat "Do as you would be done by" till I am black in the fact, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Religious, Black

  "The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics".

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• The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.

  J. B. Priestley

  Men, Differences, Together

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• Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Struggle, Wish, Helping

  Phyllis Bottome (1930). “Tatter'd Loving”

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• The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very little positive merit. He fulfils, however, all the rules of what is peculiarly called justice, and does every thing which his equals can with propriety force him to do, or which they can punish him for not doing. We may often fulfil all the rules of justice by sitting still and doing nothing.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Sitting Still, Justice

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master”, p.92, VM eBooks

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• I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbours, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play, and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Play, Conversation, Feels

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.391, Library of America

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• There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  People, Neglect, Busybodies

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.7, e-artnow

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• Do your neighbour good by all means in your power, moral as well as physical - by kindness, by patience, by unflinching resistance against every outward evil - by the silent preaching of your own contrary life. But if the only good you can do him is by talking at him, or about him - nay, even to him, if it be in a self-satisfied, super-virtuous style - such as I earnestly hope the present writer is not doing - you had much better leave him alone.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Kindness, Mean, Self

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 8), 1858.

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• The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Kindness, Condolences, Opportunity

  Patricia Wentworth (1992). “The Ivory Dagger”, Perennial

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• The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.

  African Spir

  People, Firsts, Principles

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 38), 1937.

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• It is now necessary to face the truth and to acknowledge against all prejudices that the struggle that the Albanian tribe is leading today is a natural and unavoidable historic struggle for a different political life than that experienced under Turkish rule - different also from that which its neighbours Serbia, Greece and Montenegro would like to force upon the Albanians.

  Dimitrije Tucovic

  Struggle, Political, Different

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• Among many reasons for being stupid it may be urged, it is being like other people, and living like one's neighbours, and indeed without it, it may be difficult to love some neighbours as oneself: now seeing the necessity of being dull, you won't, I hope, take it amiss that you find me so.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Stupid, People, Dull

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