1. samaritan - Noun
2. samaritan - Adjective
3. Samaritan - Proper noun
Of or pertaining to Samaria, in Palestine.
A native or inhabitant of Samaria; also, the language of Samaria.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNo one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well. Margaret Thatcher
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?" Martin Luther King Jr.
The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
To be independent to my mind does not mean to be isolated, to be the priest or the Levite, but rather to be the good Samaritan. There is no real independence save only as we secure it through the law of service. Calvin Coolidge
Wherever there are people, the Church is called to reach out to them and to bring the joy of the Gospel. ... May our passing through the Holy Door today commit us to making our own the mercy of the Good Samaritan. Pope Francis
Some are jealous of being successors of the Apostles. I would rather be a successor of the Samaritan woman, who, while the Apostles went for meat and forgot souls, forgot her water pot in her zeal to spread the good tidings. James Hudson Taylor