Neighbor Quotes - Page 2

We conclude, therefore, that a Christian lives not in himself, but in Christ and in his neighbor. Otherwise he is not a Christian. He lives in Christ through faith, in his neighbor through love. By faith he is caught up beyond himself into God. By love he descends beneath himself into his neighbor.

O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell.

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash' unless it's illegal.

All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.

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

Don't hang out in your old neighborhood with your new cars and flash it to guys who don't have that. The only thing you're doing is making 'em hate.

Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.

My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.

Christ's indwelling presence has freed us from exclusive orientation toward ourselves and opened us up in two directions: toward God, to receive the good things in faith, and toward our neighbor, to pass them on in love.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

They say love thy neighbor as thy self , what am I supposed to do jerk him off too?

Your Lord is a God of mercy and bountifulness: be a source of mercy and bountifulness to your neighbors. If you will be such, you will find salvation yourself with everlasting glory.

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine; could you be mine?

If we truly love God, we will express it by loving our neighbors, and when we truly love our neighbors, it expresses our love for God.

It is discouraging to try to be a good neighbor in a bad neighborhood.

We lead our lives well when we love God with our whole being and when we love neighbors as we (properly) love ourselves.

Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.

Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible to love one's neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close.

Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.

If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."

Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere.

Someone who loves a neighbor allows him to be as he is, as he was, and as he will be.

Service of God consists in what we do to our neighbor.