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1fc72dd | There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. | religion ordinary-people neighbor | C.S. Lewis | |
b8b8363 | People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are. | prejudice people truth rumor libel reputation neighbor slander | George Eliot | |
fdf02cc | You shall love your neighbour With your crooked heart, It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect. | jesus heart love neighbor perfect | John Green | |
739196e | Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs? | current present future compassion love hoarding stewardship labor sharing selfish neighbor saving need justice | Randy Alcorn | |
60ef4fe | To be truly good means more than not robbing people . . . To be truly good means more than being righteously religious . . . To be truly good means being a good neighbor. . . . And to be a good neighbor means recognizing that there are ultimately no strangers. . . . Everybody is my neighbor! . . . Everybody is my brother! . . . There are no isolated monads wounded on the other side of the street! . . . We're all connected. | righteousness goodness neighbor good-samaritan | Brian D. McLaren |