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Quotes About Enemy

Cheap grace is the mortal enemy of the church
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If God loved the world, the whole fallen creation, then he gave us no preference over others. He loved my worst enemy no less than he loved me. Jesus Christ died for his and our enemies.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
To believe the promise of Jesus that his followers shall possess the earth, and at the same time to face our enemies unarmed and defenseless, preferring to incur injustice rather than to do wrong ourselves, is indeed a narrow way.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I can think of nothing more horrible than an orchestra that has gone out of control at rehearsal. I wouldn't wish it on an enemy.
~ Dmitri Shostakovich
For a significant section of the ruling elite the Napoleonic Wars were in one sense a distraction and a sideshow. They saw Russia's main interests as lying in expansion southwards against the Ottomans and Persians. These men seldom saw France itself as Russia's main or inevitable enemy. Most of them believed that the Napoleonic empire was
~ Dominic Lieven
Major: you have the honor to report that the numbers of men now under your command qualifies you for promotion to colonel. But you ask me to believe that your regiments assaulted Rebel forces in a pitched battle of over two hours duration, all the while steadily employing the heavy field pieces recently shipped to you, without one single battle death on either side . Sir, that is not warfare. That is fraternization with the enemy !
~ Donald Harington
The enemy's plan is to take away God's glory. God's plan is to have as much glory shown through your life.
~ Beth Moore
All of that requires that they do what you're talking about: destroying our empathy and reducing our faith in reason. Those guys on the border laughed when they let you through because you're not even human to them. You're a unit of something else. They rename you 'test subject' or 'enemy,' or they assign you a race or a nation or a class—and then they don't have to think about you anymore.
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson
Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.
~ Jeremy Taylor
What a casual way to say 'The enemy of God is after you'.
~ Jerry B. Jenkins
Indwelling sin remains in us even though it has been dethroned. And though it has been overthrown and weakened, its nature has not changed. Sin is still hostile to God and cannot submit to His law (Romans 8:7). Thus we have an implacable enemy of righteousness right in our own hearts. What diligence and watchfulness is required of us when this enemy in our souls is ready to oppose every effort to do good!
~ Jerry Bridges
If God loved me enough to give His Son to die for me when I was His enemy, surely He loves me enough to care for me now that I am His child.
~ Jerry Bridges
Surprise is an event that occurs in the mind of an enemy commander.
~ Jerry Pournelle
Instead of doing away with the class war, we ought to intensify it, catch our enemy by the throat, because if we don't kill them in time, they'll put a knife in our backs.
~ Jerzy Andrzejewski
when it comes to coping with evil, ignorance is our worst enemy.
~ Jessica Stern
We also recognize that the crisis of democracy is not a peculiarly Italian or German problem, but one confronting every modern state. Nor does it matter which symbols the enemies of human freedom choose: freedom is no less endangered if attacked in the name of anti-fascism or in that of outright fascism
~ Erich Fromm
When it is fairly quiet we can hear the transports behind the enemy lines rolling ceaselessly until dawn. Kat says that they do not go back but are bringing up troops—troops, munitions, and guns.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Moartea este un camelen am?gitor.Apare tot mereu în alt? înf??iÈ™are.Sau, mai bine zis noi suntem cameleonii;c?ci mereu ne schimb?m atitudinea.Ba vedem în moarte un prieten, ba un inamic; doar Dumnezeu È™i moartea nu ne pot dezam?gi; iar aceasta formeaz? o unitate.Adic?:viaÈ›a!
~ Erich Maria Remarque
The only effective defense lay in offense, he said, "which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves.
~ Erik Larson
Germany issued a proclamation designating the waters around the British Isles an "area of war" in which all enemy ships would be subject to attack without warning.
~ Erik Larson
At stake was not only the British Empire but all of Christian civilization. "The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war.
~ Erik Larson
All supposed exterior signs of danger that a bull gives, such as pawing the ground, threatening with his horns, or bellowing are forms of bluffing. They are warnings given in order that combat may be avoided if possible. The truly brave bull gives no warning before he charges except the fixing of his eye on the enemy, the raising of the crest of muscle in his neck, the twitching of an ear, and, as he charges, the lifting of his tail.
~ Ernest Hemingway
She needs an enemy so badly always that she has to keep one near and she's the nearest and the easiest to attack knowing the weaknesses and strengths and all the faults of our defenses.
~ Ernest Hemingway
They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought.
~ Ernest Hemingway