Jesus’ command to love our neighbours is a command to love all strangers precisely because we too have been strangers to God and welcomed in.
– Kester Brewin
Related Quotes:
- Neighbours watching neighbours, twisting ropes to bind us all. – Jessie Burton
- You don’t command wind in the direction it blows, but you command a ship in the direction it sails. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- To take command, one must first create the illusion that command is already yours. – Denise Domning
- I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought. – Gertrude Stein
- People bond themselves into families and groups for protection, and strangers…strangers are always at risk. – Rachel Caine
- A good Christian needs Jesus. A great Christian needs Jesus. A christian sinner needs Jesus. Pope needs Jesus. – Alin Sav
- … love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies. – EA Bucchianeri
- Mom Voice – A mother’s vocal range when even the neighbours will clean their rooms and eat their veggies. – Olive Hunter
- What is humanity? To feel pain at the sorrows of our neighbours, to feel humiliated at the humiliation of fellow-beings. – Idries Shah
- These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children… the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution. – Phillip C McGraw
- Don’t dream to lead the people while you can’t care, even about your neighbours. – Ehsan Sehgal
- Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. – George Eliot
- Jesus sets the boundaries of God’s will. If it doesn’t look like Christ, then it’s outside the will of God. Jesus iS the will of God for us. – David D Flowers
- How can the face that welcomed me into the world be the face I’ll soon forget? How can the body I came through be the body I don’t really know? – Michelle Carithers
- After a while, it all started to fade. No more pain, no more unwanted thoughts and no sound. Just darkness. I welcomed it. I was done. – Ani San
- A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease. – JRR Tolkien
- Though sleep was dearly needed, it was not welcomed, for even in sleep I was tormented. – Dave Moore
- I always welcomed the comforting cloak of night except for the times when I lost something in it. – Donna Lynn Hope
- Grief embraced him and welcomed him back, showering tears upon his arrival. – Faraaz Kazi
- She wondered what life would be like if there was always an arm around her shoulder and if there was a back that welcomed her hug all the time. – Deirdre Riordan Hall
- For one last time, I said my goodbyes to the place I’d known as home for the last decade, and for the first time, I welcomed the unknown. – Nicole Sobon
- It is a wonderful gift for the man to be welcomed by the woman. – Sameh Elsayed
- Darkness enveloped us again, and for the first time in years, I welcomed it. – Melika Dannese Lux
- And she didn’t judge nobody. She loved everyone equal- accountants, queers, musicians, she welcomed us all, said we were all idiots just the same. – Ruta Sepetys
- Death could be waiting for him, but he wasn’t afraid. Whether it be sooner or later, he welcomed the inevitability with open arms. – Craig R Key
- When you invite Jesus Christ into your life and embrace his command, Satan receives an eviction notice. Romans 10:9 – Felix Wantang
- Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and self-love may be love for my devotion to Jesus-” not love for Jesus Himself. – Oswald Chambers
- We must carefully examine our relationship with Jesus Christ before we make any attempts to introduce him to strangers. Matthew 7:21-23 – Felix Wantang
- Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Help me. Please, help me. If you really exist, you skinny jew bastard, help me kill myself. – Hubert Selby Jr
- Seeing Jesus prolongs your life. Seeing Jesus keeps you healthy. Seeing Jesus makes you strong. – Paul Silway
- Jesus doesn’t adjust to us, and He doesn’t submit to our whims. We adjust to Jesus and submit to Him. Jesus is King, not an accessory. – Justin Buzzard
- Discover Whether Jesus Is For You Or Your Pastor’s Jesus Or Your Friend’s Jesus… You Will See A Lot Of Miracles. – Cyc Jouzy
- As you know Jesus more, you naturally love Him more. The less you know of Him, the less you love. To know Jesus is to love Him. – Eric Samuel Timm
- God is willing! God will save! God will rescue! God will restore! God will revive! God will empower! God willing and He will do it! – Israelmore Ayivor
- He is precisely the young man to fall headlong in love and repent it for the rest of his life. – Virginia Woolf
- Death is our friend, precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love. – Rainer Maria Rilke
- Love survives in us precisely because it isn’t wise. – Gregory David Roberts
- God’s word is the way to God himself. If you miss the word of God, you will miss God. Jesus is the word! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Jesus is love.He is our hope.So love Jesus and be hopeful. – Calvin W Allison
- God uses language to create and command us. – Eugene H Peterson