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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Surely part of loving in this way is trying to understand what another person wants us to understand. I may not understand perfectly and I may not agree, but if I love you I should try to know what it is you wish I could know.

— Kevin DeYoung

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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

— Adam Hamilton

If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it.

— Bruce Cockburn

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

— Eric Hoffer

You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.

— Randall Terry

The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.

— Barbara Deming

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

— John Locke

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

— Bono

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

— Joseph Butler

The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.

— Susan Hill

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