J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!" "What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?"
Neighbor quotes
Neighbor
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Martin Buber
Philosopher
"The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God."
Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for."
Martin Luther
Theologian
"It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor."
John Green
Author, YouTuber
"I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart."
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"The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor."
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"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."
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"Loving God and loving one's neighbor are really the same thing."
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"The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors."
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"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."
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"Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean."
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"Since you cannot control the weather, or the traffic, or the one you love, or your neighbors, or your boss, then you must learn to control you... the one whose response to the difficulties of life REALLY counts."
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"If your neighbors did an analysis of your life, what would they learn about the kingdom?"
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"How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!"
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"All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty."
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"I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood."
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"When charity requires it we must freely and mildly communicate to our neighbor not only what is his instruction, but also what is profitable for his consolation."
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"If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves."
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"Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper."
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"Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy."
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"Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor."
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"If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own."
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"It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity."
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"Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor."
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"We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are."
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