"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."
"It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity."
"Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor."
"We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are."
"If someone is capable of loving his partner without restrictions, unconditionally, then he is manifesting the love of God. If the love of God becomes manifest, he will love his neighbor. If he loves his neighbor, he will love himself. If he loves himself, then everything returns to its proper place."
"If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbour, for in him God comes to you himself; such a man sees in his neighbour the material and spiritual need he is called to meet."
"Good is no hermit. It has ever neighbors."
"What people should do is explain to their friends, to their neighbors how they feel when they confront the word n - - and why they feel the way they feel."
"He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."
"Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable."
"Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them."
"Remember, the grass is always greener where you don't happen to be the neighbor."
"Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already."
"And it is so simple... The one thing is - love thy neighbor as thyself - that is the one thing. That is all, nothing else is needed. You will instantly find how to live."
"Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors."
"You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor."
"A good neighbor is a very desireable thing."
"Who in their right mind counts the tiles on the floor when they go visiting a neighbor?"
"I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor."