Neighbor Quotes

• I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

  Mother Teresa

  Women, Responsibility, Doors

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.27, New World Library

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

  Mae West

  Love, Funny, Anniversary

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• To love God and neighbor is not something abstract, but profoundly concrete: it means seeing in every person and face of the Lord to be served, to serve him concretely. And you are, dear brothers and sisters, in the face of Jesus.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Brother, Mean

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Reality

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (18), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

  John Locke

  Love, Pregnancy, Might

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Humility, Men

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

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• See to whom Jesus is drawing near, three kinds of people: to those who make peace with him, to those who are devoted to God, and to those who are kind to their neighbors.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Jesus, Drawing, People

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (2010). “The Academic Sermons (The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation, Volume 11)”, p.48, CUA Press

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• It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

  Eric Hoffer

  Love, Meaningful, Pregnancy

  New York Times Magazine 15 Feb. 1959, p. 12

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  I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Seems like every other day there's somebody on the news, somebody gets killed or does something crazy and all the neighbors and everybody says, "I can't believe he did that, I can't believe she did that."

  Jack Black

  Crazy, Believe, Doe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If we love our neighbor we shall without doubt tell him the good news of Jesus. But equally if we truly love our neighbor we shall not stop there.

  John Stott

  Jesus, Doubt, News

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• 80% of the people who come into a Christ-following relationship is because a friend, co-worker, family member or neighbor invited them to church.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, People

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• The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Friendship, Family, Government

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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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• No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.

  Martin Luther

  Help And Support, Community, May

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• I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, God, Heart

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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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• A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.

  Hesiod

  Blessing, Good Neighbor, Misfortunes

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• It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, God, Religious

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 17 (1781 - 1785)

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• If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors.

  Frank Sinatra

  Dream, World Love, Guy

  Interview with Joe Hyams, Playboy magazine, February 1963.

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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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• Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Children

  "Worldwide Laws Of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles". Book by John Templeton, p. 448, 1998.

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• Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Christianity, Modern, Teach

  Benjamin Disraeli (1872). “Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

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• When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

  Ralph Nader

  Community, Brotherhood, Acting

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• The only time you should look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.

  Louis C. K.

  Kindness, Comedian, Looks

  "Louie: Pregnant". TV Series, tv.avclub.com. 2011.

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