“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
“There is again a living prophet on the earth speaking in the name of the Lord. And how we need such guidance! Our times are turbulent and difficult. We see wars internationally and distress domestically. Neighbors all around us face personal heartaches and family sorrows. Legions know fear and troubles of a hundred kinds.” KnowsNeedsKindWarEarthFacesNamesDifficultLordTroubleSorrowHundredNeighborGuidanceHeartacheOur TimeProphetDistressLegion Author:Jeffrey R. Holland
“The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations.” WorldFirstsRunningPeaceChristCommunityForgetTeacherTroubleTeachingLaborUniversalBasesNeighborObligationFollowersThyselfOur CommunityLove Thy NeighborWorld Love Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly. ... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit.” KnowsMenHumansMayMatterReligionCausesTroubleHuman NatureFindingsNeighborDoctrineHeresyPulpit Author:Galileo Galilei
“War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!” IfsMenChildrenDoeWarSpiritEvilHouseLeftNationsPayBreakForeverTroubleProveEthicsBlowDrivenNeighborFurnitureHeirsCaptivesSuccessorsBloodletting Book:In Times Like These Source: In Times Like These
“Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.” ChildrenCountryHelpingPainLife IsSufferingHouseCitiesWifeTroubleSubjectsLike YouNeighborTrialsStationsHouseholdSuffering And PainCity And Country Book:The sermon on the mount and the magnificat Source: The sermon on the mount and the magnificat
“Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God, trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?” IfsEndsLosesPathTroubleLosingNeighborTemperSerenity Author:Mother Teresa
“I don't like giving a gift just to cross the person off my list. They don't have to be extravagant or expensive things, they can be simple. Just helping my neighbor hang his lights was a great gift for me to give. He was an older gentleman who was having trouble putting up his lights, and it made me feel good to be able to help him.” GivingFeelsPersonsMadeHelpingLightAbleSimpleTroubleCrossesNeighborListsFeel GoodGentlemanExpensiveExtravagantGreat Gifts Author:Peter Facinelli
“When immigrants come, the freedom to practice their faith is a guarantee. They may have trouble with their neighbors, but freedom of religion is part of the blueprint for America, and that is the recipe for the religious diversity that we have today.” MayTodayAmericaReligiousPracticeTroubleDiversityNeighborGuaranteesImmigrantsRecipesBlueprintsFreedom Of ReligionReligious Diversity Author:Diana L. Eck