Neighbor Quotes

“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

“The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Emotional predictive profiling may help identify contingent fissures in the stature of endangered relationships. Still and all, it might be wise to let the genie out of problematic bottles in the first place, in advance of scouting the causes of surreptitious subliminal convulsions. ("Beware of the neighbor")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Each time a person passes by you and you say 'hello', imagine that person turning into a candle. The more positivity, love and light you reflect, the more light is mirrored your way. Sharing beautiful hellos is the quickest way to earn spiritual brownie points. You should start seeing hellos as small declarations of faith. Every time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“If you wish to befriend someone, look for a person who loves first God then themselves. If they love God, they will be able to love their neighbor, too.”
― Peter Deunov

“If in my life I fail completely to heed others, solely out of a desire to be 'devout' and to perform my 'religious duties', then my relationship with God will also grow arid. It becomes merely 'proper', but loveless.”
― Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), God is Love: Deus Caritas Est

“Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You shall love your neighbour
With your crooked heart,

It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.”
― Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

“The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to their own merits... [The Scripture] teaches us that we must not think of man's real value, but only of his creation in the image of God to which we owe all possible honor and love.”
― John Calvin, Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“It is man who kills, man who creates or suffers injustice; it is no longer man who, having lost all restraint, shares his bed with a corpse. Whoever waits for his neighbor to die in order to take his piece of bread is, albeit guiltless, further from the model of
thinking man than the most primitive pigmy or the most vicious sadist".”
― Primo Levi, If This Is a Man • The Truce

“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be real and costly love, with deep feelings for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbour is the holiest object presented to your senses ... for in him also Christ 'vere latitat' - the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

“Fire is no laughing matter. In a drunken attempt to appear womanly, my neighbor tried to burn her pubes off when she was fifteen, but it hurt too much to get it completely smooth. My friend had sex with her two years later and said her clit looked like a chestnut. I’ve been pro-bush ever since. ”
― Brian Celio, Catapult Soul

“Neighbor to neighbor. It is a mentality that has been fostered over centuries, since the earliest settlers realized the only way to survive in this desolate but beautiful outpost was to work together. Much of their music captures this spirit.”
― Jim DeFede, The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

“A Igreja tem o dever primário de se aproximar dessas pessoas com amor e delicadeza, com solicitude e atenção materna, para anunciar a proximidade misericordiosa de Deus em Jesus Cristo. De facto é Ele, como ensinam os Padres, o verdadeiro Bom Samaritano, que Se fez nosso próximo, que derrama o óleo e o vinho sobre as nossas chagas e que nos conduz à estalagem, a Igreja, na qual nos faz curar, confiando-nos aos seus ministros e pagando pessoal e antecipadamente a nossa cura. Sim, o evangelho do amor e da vida é também sempre evangelho da misericórdia, que se dirige ao homem concreto e pecador que somos nós, para o levantar depois de qualquer queda, para o restabelecer de qualquer ferida.”
― Bento XVI

“Natural law teaches us to kill our neighbour, which how men behave the world over.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“My new apartment came with a Baby Shrine. In the closet of a second bedroom. Hemingway's "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" filling an entire shelf. Piles of rattles and dozens of bibs. Too much to describe in just six words. I invited a cute neighbor over to see. It wasn't a very good icebreaker. But young guys only get so smooth.”
― Damon Thomas, Some Books Are Not For Sale

“A crucial commandment is to love your neighbor as yourself.

Why is that so difficult?”
― Karah Khalia

“Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.”
― Deitrich Bonhoeffer

“Feed a dog so your neighbor won't bark at you.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Part of being a good neighbor is respecting what your close neighbors are telling you.”
― Steven Magee

“I would not do any home upgrade that a close neighbor was objecting to. It is just a recipe for a future bad relationship.”
― Steven Magee

“The Dark Cloud
Is a costly habit that can drive someone to become insane
Is a pathway to becoming crazy, criminal, and in pain
Is a dark secret that knows everything about your neighbor
Is a ghost that suddenly and dangerously sent lots of labor”
― Aida Mandic, The Dark Cloud

“Among all human fears, the most destructive is our fear of each other.”
― Anamikos

“All of us, at some time or other, need help, whether we're giving or receiving help, each one of us has something valuable to bring to this world. That's one of the things that connects us as neighbors-in our own way. Each one of us is a giver and a receiver.”
― Fred Rogers

“The neighbor...has never been presented as an object of admiration; Christianity has never taught that one shall admire the neighbor--one shall love him.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Works of Love

“Always cut two coats from your cloth, one for your family, another for the neighbor's.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“If the wounds of a neighbor were inflicted by us, there is then two who need healing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough