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Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.' -- George McGovern
In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor. -- William Ames
What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. -- Robert E. Lee
We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress. -- David McCallum
I love the work of Hayao Miyazaki. 'My Neighbor Totoro' and 'Castle in the Sky' are two of the great films that he's made that I just love. -- John Lasseter
In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the 'vertical dimension' of faith and the 'horizontal dimension' of love for one's neighbor and political change. -- Jurgen Moltmann
When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done. -- Tullian Tchividjian
On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love. -- Edith Stein
You'll see a movie about someone you hate or someone you love. Will you see a movie about grandma making apple pies? No, you won't. Only if grandma has poisoned the neighbor or is suspected of poisoning the neighbor through her apple pies. -- John McAfee
We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world. -- Rob Bell
If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does. -- Phil McGraw
What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike! -- Patricia Polacco
When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit of happiness, of joy, of cheerfulness. I am firmly convinced that in order to sing well, you must love your neighbor and be passionate about life. -- Andrea Bocelli
Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma. -- Jeff Merkley
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying to understand what another person wants us to understand. I may not understand perfectly and I may not agree, but if I love you I should try to know what it is you wish I could know. -- Kevin DeYoung
What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about? -- Lucy Larcom
I often write about nonreligious people, and I try to find situations where their sense of humanity is restored or discovered. I think you can be a good person in many ways. And I think you often have to be careful that prayer can seem superficial, because it's a very complicated thing to love your neighbor as yourself. -- Horton Foote
I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male. -- Julia Child
My message is to get human beings to love God, love their neighbor and for the life of me I just don't see the downside of human beings not being so mean to one another and actually care for one another and not steal from one another and not murder each other for their tennis shoes. That's the message I have. -- Phil Robertson
The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential values. Every religion can tell you it has basic values. You ask a Christian, most Christians would say love God and love your neighbor. Is that the entirety of Christianity? No one in his right mind would say it is. -- Dennis Prager
It is impossible to love God without loving our neighbor. -- Mother Teresa
Love the neighbor. But don't get caught. -- Stephen Hawking
Fear God. Love your neighbor. And shoot ducks. -- Phil Robertson
Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor. -- Thaddeus of Vitovnica
Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge. -- John Ray
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge. -- George Herbert
I can love the whole world except my neighbor. -- Dada Dharmadhikari
Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence. -- Carl Sandburg
Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself. -- Thomas Jefferson
There is an old adage: love thy neighbor, but don't get caught. -- Jerry Lawler
Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you. -- Louisa May Alcott
To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man. -- Saint Francis de Sales
The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor. -- Brennan Manning
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. -- Woodrow Wilson
Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor. -- Karl Kraus
His motto is "Love Thy Neighbor". His neighbor is an 18 year old hooker. -- Henny Youngman
He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor. -- Venerable Bede
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything. -- Teresa of Avila
Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart. -- John Green
The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself. -- Saint Augustine
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. -- Eric Hoffer
If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony. -- Paul Valery
If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor. -- Maurice Maeterlinck
Love thy neighbor is more than a divine truth. It is a pattern for perfection. -- Thomas S. Monson
To love God with all our heart, soul, and mind, and our neighbor as ourself. -- Anonymous
Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did. -- C. S. Lewis
The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self. -- George MacDonald
Love your neighbor as yourself. That's what we need to adopt to be a better country. -- Brandon Marshall
To love one's neighbor is a tough command. It works better for people who live far away. -- C.J. Langenhoven
They say love thy neighbor as thy self , what am I supposed to do jerk him off too? -- Rodney Dangerfield
You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it. -- Randall Terry
A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand. -- Robert Breault
If we have true love with sympathy and patient labor, we shall not go about scrutinizing our neighbor's shortcomings. -- Dorotheus of Gaza
The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. -- Mae West
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. -- Nicolas Chamfort
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through? -- Simone Weil
Love thy neighbor -- and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. -- Mae West
Love one another, push the perimeter of this glorious language. Lastly, please show proper courtesy; open not your neighbor's mail. -- Mark Dunn
We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love. -- Vincent de Paul
If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own. -- Audrey Hepburn
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Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor. -- Timothy Keller
Christian love means two things at once: to recognize the Lord in one's neighbor and to recognize one's neighbor in the Lord. -- Adrienne von Speyr
What I believe in is love your neighbor as yourself and don't call him stupid because they don't agree with you politically. -- Bill Maher
When you hear that your neighbor or friend has reproached you in your absence or presence, then show love and praise him. -- John Climacus
The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it. Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood. -- Louise Lester
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce
To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense. -- Timothy Keller
Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend. -- Dorothy Day
When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary. -- Shane Claiborne
Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter -- Johann Georg Hamann
In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. -- Woodrow Wilson
To love my neighbor is to assist the arising and unfolding in him of that which can harmonize the real elements of his nature. -- Jacob Needleman
Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. -- Charles Darwin
"Love covers a multitude of sins," (I Pet. 4:8). That is, for love towards one's neighbor, God forgives the sins of the one who loves. -- Theophan the Recluse
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor. It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself. -- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
My next door neighbor just had a pacemaker installed. They're still working the bugs out, though. Every time he makes love, my garage door opens. -- Bob Hope
authority love your neighbor.no matter what the condition is. even if it means to sacrifice your plan to do what he or she wants. -- Skyla
The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor. -- Clifton Fadiman
It could be said that just about anyone we encounter is our neighbor, but it especially applies to those we would be least likely to love. -- Leith Anderson
Cordial love of the neighbor does not consist in feelings. This love flows not from a heart of flesh but from the heart of our will. -- Jane Frances de Chantal
When we come to a clearer and more sober estimate of our own limitations and responsibilities, that makes it possible more genuinely to love our neighbor. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
One cannot speak about love for God and neighbor without having a standard of communication, respect, honor, and without understanding how precious every human being is. -- Sunday Adelaja
Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor. -- Aelred of Rievaulx
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
The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created. -- Max Frisch
Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty. -- Girolamo Savonarola
We love our Hohne Pool. We never have had a problem. My neighbor has one too. We both enjoy them very much, completely happy. We're both very pleased. -- Linda Jones
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
If you find a neighbor in need, you're responsible for serving that neighbor in need, you're responsible for loving a neighbor just like you'd like to love yourself. -- George W. Bush
In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the vertical dimension of faith and the horizontal dimension of love for ones neighbor and political change. -- JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
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
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
The words 'God is love' conclude a biblical warning, not a warm and fuzzy slogan. 'He who doesn't love [his neighbor] doesn't love God, for God is love.' -- Mel White

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