Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.
Tullian Tchividjian
GoodGodDirectionNeighborAimUs
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
Nikolai Berdyaev
MyselfSpiritualNeighborBread
No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that is your neighbor's.
Moses
HeartWifeHouseNeighborAnything
We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany.
Leon Askin
PoliticalSituationNeighborStage
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
Horace
SuccessManBrainyNeighborLean
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
George McGovern
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We used to have a bull. A real bull. At that time, Jennifer Lopez was my neighbor. God bless her, she took it. But other neighbors did not like it, that we have a bull.
Charo
GodTimeNeighborNeighborsSheHer
In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
William Ames
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The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.
Jacques Ellul
AloneNeighborSpiritHoly Spirit
I don't think that the Iranians, even if they got the bomb, they're going to drop it immediately on some neighbor. They fully understand what might follow. They're radical, but not total mishuginas.
Ehud Barak
ThinkNeighborUnderstandFollowGot
I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a really nice truck. But it's a Durango and I like frontin'! I like to ride by and show off.
Patrice O'Neal
CultureRideTruckNeighborNice
I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
Harland Williams
GoodPeopleMindMeNeighborPoint
All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.
Jesus Christ
LoveYourselfYouNeighborSingle
It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.
Maya Angelou
PeopleDoorDownNeighborKnowRace
You never forget your first felony. Mine was mail tampering. As a hoops-crazed 13-year-old, I rifled through a new neighbor's mailbox to confirm that the occupant of the split-level on 98 1/2 Street in Bloomington, Minn., really was former Gophers basketball star Flip Saunders.
Steve Rushin
BasketballNever ForgetYouNeighbor
The Israelis should understand that it is in their long-term interest to have a democratic Egypt as a neighbor, and that it is prudent to acknowledge the legitimate interests of the Palestinians and to grant them their own state.
Mohamed ElBaradei
NeighborEgyptUnderstandOwnGrant
There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.
Arthur C. Brooks
MoneyGovernmentYouNeighborUnfair
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.
LoveGodNeighborDoneUsIdea
How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage?
Rick Santelli
PeopleYouNeighborWantMortgage
I am a mirror to my neighbor, and in that mirror, he must see a reflection of Jesus. If that mirror is cloudy or distorted, Jesus' reflection will be so vague it will hardly be seen.
Mother Angelica
MirrorReflectionI AmNeighborWill
The WWE belt means nothing; it means absolutely nothing. They pass around that belt like a hot potato. I probably have a neighbor on my block who held that belt at one point. There is no prestige to that belt whatsoever.
Kenny Omega
NeighborNothingHotPointPassWWE
It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
FireNeighborWallYourConcern
After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.
George William Russell
SpiritualWorldNeighborWillSpirit
Restoration of friendship with Russia, our biggest neighbor, is necessary for our peace and economy.
Bidzina Ivanishvili
FriendshipPeaceNeighborEconomy
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