Neighbor Quotes

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it.

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.

We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.

How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.

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?

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

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor.

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

My next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.

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

My neighbor has a circular driveway... he can't get out.

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.

In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother.

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.

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because we hadn't come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson's population was half white and half black, I didn't have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school.

The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking, 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say, 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?'

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

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.