Quotes About Enemy

His realm, we will continue to live defeated lives in the face of walls too thick to crumble, and an enemy looming too large for us to overcome. One Game, Two Chapels, One God

Not for the first time in international disputes over Germany, France was its own worst enemy.

In the political war the enemy presents itself in its true colors. It is much harder to discern the enemy in the cultural war.

Fake freedom teaches that believers can live on the redline of this world, with one foot on "belief in Jesus" and the other entrenched in what offends holiness. Yet in this position, the enemy has access to attack anytime he chooses. This is not faith; it is spiritual roulette.

The enemy loves my busyness because he knows what "busy" really means: "Being Under Satan's Yoke." It's not a glamorous distraction, but it's highly effective in removing me from the front lines of spiritual warfare.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth

It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.

Nevertheless, I cannot help feeling hope. It is not the same as being buried alive, and surely there is cause for hope. Isn't it true that the liabilities of an incomplete person--not being able, without the mask, to sing, to exchange blows with an enemy, to be a lecher, to dream--have become a common subject between me and others, and I alone am not guilty? Perhaps so. Perhaps so indeed.

The goal of all enemy assaults is to scare us out of our divine destiny.

When we love those who hate us and pray for those who persecute us, we extend the Gospel of peace to a godless and destructive world.

When we do what the Spirit has anointed us to do, we are not just helping people; we are also terrorizing the enemy. It is so important that we find our place of calling in life, and that we understand that each of us is born to be an instrument of God, filled with the Spirit of God, to do the works of God.

Real love is a secret weapon that our enemy has no answer for.

Sorrow is a near enemy to compassion and to love. It is borne of sensitivity and feels like empathy. But it can paralyze and turn us back inside with a sense that we can't possibly make a difference.

Never assume the enemy is down and then turn your back on him. You will pay for it with your life.

The modern partisan expects neither law nor mercy from the enemy.

The partisan is still the one who refuses to carry weapons openly, who fights from ambush, and who uses the enemy's uniform, as well as true or false insignias and every type of civilian clothing as camouflage. Secrecy and darkness are his strongest weapons...

Der Feind ist unsere eigene Frage als Gestalt.

As long as the enemy is not defeated, he may defeat me; then I shall be no longer my own master; he will dictate the law to me as I did to him.

Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed; war is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst.

The probability of direct confrontation increases with the aggressiveness of the enemy. So, rather than try to outbid the enemy with complicated schemes, one should, on the contrary, try to outbid him in simplicity

Ebenso ist die Eroberung von Provinzen eine andere Maßregel, wenn es nicht auf das Niederwerfen des Gegners abgesehen ist. In jenem Falle wäre die Vernichtung seiner Streitkraft die eigentliche wirksame Handlung und das Einnehmen der Provinzen nur die Folge davon; sie einzunehmen, ehe die Streitkraft zusammengeworfen ist, wäre immer nur als ein notwendiges Übel zu betrachten.

The woman opened her eyes. "I can't feel my feet." Panic filled her voice now. "Just hold on, Mrs. Mason," he told her, touched by what was happening, moved by his enemy death, even as death began to press down. Be gentle, you demon, he thought.

Always in my love, sudden night. Always in myself, my enemy. And always in my always, the same absence.

I loved her – my enemy – by choosing to not make her a substitute god to which I offered too many waking thoughts – bitter, acrimonious – as if they were a prayer.