“If you make provision for the desires of the flesh and bear a grudge against your neighbor on account of something transitory, you worship the creature instead of the Creator.” IfsChristianDesireBearsCreaturesWorshipAccountsCreatorNeighborFleshOrthodoxProvisionGrudgeTransitory Author:Maximus the Confessor
“Indifference to our neighbour and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our conscience.” NeedsYearsRealChristianVoiceTroubleCryConscienceNeighborTemptationIndifferenceProphet Author:Pope Francis
“And when we go to church, read our Bibles, have our quiet times, and go to Christian conferences, we too can build some impressive spiritual muscles, but unless we use those spiritual muscles to change our lives, build the church, love our neighbors, and care for the sick and the poor, we...are just posers. Let us not take God's truth for granted.” UseCareChristianSpiritualChurchPoorOur LivesQuietSickNeighborGrantedMusclesConferencesImpressiveQuiet TimePosers Book:He Walks Among Us: Encounters with Christ in a Broken World Source: He Walks Among Us: Encounters with Christ in a Broken World
“Spiritually, trees play a unique role in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, from the Garden of Eden to the Cross of Christ. Biologically, in great forest communities, they help sustain life on our planet, giving off oxygen, anchoring soil, keeping stream and rivers clear, and providing habitation for thousands of species. How can religious persons not care about the widespread destruction of these creatures of God? We need to love them as our very selves, as neighbors in earth's community of life.” NeedsGivingPersonsSelfPlayHelpingCareEarthChristianChristCommunityReligiousRolesClearTreePlanetsCreaturesUniqueGardenRiversCrossesDestructionSpeciesNeighborScriptureForestsStreamsSoilProvidingOxygenOur PlanetEdenGarden Of EdenReligious Person Author:Elizabeth A. Johnson
“What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.” LoveSoulBodyChristianBenefitsMarkNeighborOne Love Author:Saint Basil
“Faithiest resonated with me in many ways-not only because, like Chris, I am a gay former-Christian atheist who still thinks of my religious neighbors as fellow truth-seekers-but also because I deeply appreciated the book's nuanced approach to contentious issues. This is an important contribution to current debates, one which should be read not only for its valuable content but also for its exemplary tone: warm, engaging, optimistic, and humble.” ThinkingWayShouldStillsImportantBookChristianReligiousIssuesGayApproachFellowsAtheistCurrentsHumbleValuableWarmNeighborDebateOptimisticFormerToneContributionEngagingAppreciatedSeekersChristian AtheistExemplaryContentiousImportant ContributionsTruth Seekers Author:John Corvino
“Christ said "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" and when asked "who is thy neighbour? went on to the parable of the Good Samaritan. If you wish to understand this parable as it was understood by his hearers, you should substitute "Germans and Japanese" for Samaritan. I fear my modern day Christians would resent such a substitution, because it would compel them to realize how far they have departed from the teachings of the founder of their religion.” IfsShouldSaidChristianWishChristRealizingTeachingModernUnderstoodNeighborSubstitutesFoundersThyselfNeighbourResentParablesDepartedModern DayLove Thy NeighborSubstitutionSamaritans Author:Bertrand Russell
“We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise in denial - denial of God and her nonviolence towards us, denial of love of neighbor, denial of laws essential to our being.” IfsMeanRealChristianLawForgetExerciseEssentialsInjusticeNeighborViolentDenialNonviolenceRedress Author:Philip Berrigan
“If we don't learn to live with one another we will not live. We will either love each other as neighbors or we won't be. I believe that it is an insult to me as a Christian to say that I cannot love as neighbor somebody who thinks differently than I do.” IfsThinkingBelieveChristianI BelieveNeighborInsultLove Each Other Author:Miroslav Volf
“If evangelism isn't an expression of love of neighbor, it isn't Christian evangelizing. And love of neighbor includes not only what I say to the neighbor but how I say that.” IfsChristianExpressionAnd LoveNeighborEvangelismExpressions Of Love Author:Miroslav Volf
“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.” ChristianPoliticalTermNeighborAlternativesDimensionsVerticalHorizontalPolitical Change Author:Jürgen Moltmann
“Although the Christian is thus free from all works, he ought in this liberty to empty himself, take upon himself the form of a servant, be made in the likeness of men, be found in human form, and to serve, help and in every way deal with his neighbor as he sees that God through Christ has dealt and still deals with him.” MenWayHumansMadeStillsHelpingChristianFormFoundChristDealsLibertyOughtEmptyNeighborServantHuman Form Book:Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing Source: Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing