Neighbors
Top Bible Verses about Neighbors
Proverbs 14:21
Matthew 22:34–39
Luke 10:25–37
Romans 13:8–10
James 4:12
Famous Christian Quotes About Neighbors
What a Person’s Attitude Toward Others Shows
If a man is gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. If he is compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows that his heart is like the noble tree that is wounded itself when it gives the balm. If he easily pardons and remits offences, it shows that his mind is planted above injuries; so that he cannot be shot. If he is thankful for small benefits, it shows that he weighs men’s minds, and not their trash. But above all, if he has St. Paul’s perfection, that he would wish to be anathema from Christ for the salvation of his brothers, it shows much of a divine nature, and a kind of conformity with Christ himself.
What It Means to Imitate God
Do not wonder that a person is able to be an imitator of God. He is able, if God wills it. For in not oppressing one’s neighbors, and to not desire to have even more than the weaker ones, and not being rich and compelling those more inferior, is being happy, and in these things no one is able to imitate God but these things are outside the majesty of that one. But whoever takes up the burden of his neighbor, who wishes to do good to another who is worse off in that he is better off, who having received the things from God, he holds on to these things, providing to those in need. He becomes a god to those who receive them; this one is an imitator of God.
Physically Together and Spiritually Together
It is but right that, if we are corporally drawn together, we dwell together spiritually also. For it is of no avail that the same walls encompass us if difference of will separate us—since God regards rather unity of mind than of dwelling. Behold, we are a number of individuals under one roof, with different ways of acting, different hearts, different wills: all which one intention and one love of God must weld together in unity. We must therefore, in this matter, be of a single mind and a single will, that we may give our service to God and love God with our whole heart and with our whole soul and our neighbor as ourselves.