Quotes About Enemies

Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you

Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you."

Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism.

Love your enemies and drive them nuts.

it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people

Always abandon your enemies, and never abandon your friends.

Piper talked forcefully about how the greatest strength of true Christianity is that it gives people the courage to endure defeat and even suffering without bitterness and that this is the way that the faith will advance, not through vanquishing enemies.

it is for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell...

And yet it was principally by means of those sufferings, that he conquered and overthrew his enemies. Christ never so effectually bruised Satan's head, as when he bruised his heel. The weapon with which Christ warred against the devil, and obtained a most complete victory and glorious triumph over him, was the cross, the instrument and weapon with which he thought he had overthrown Christ, and brought on him shameful destruction.

As government, and strong rods for the exercise of it, are necessary to preserve public societies from dreadful and fatal calamities arising from among themselves; so no less requisite are they to defend the community from foreign enemies. As they are like the pillars of a building, so they are also like the walls and bulwarks of a city: they are under God the main strength of a people in a time of war and the chief instruments of their preservation, safety and rest.

the enemies of intellectual pluralism and free inquiry seem to be ten feet tall. Which is just how they want to seem.

A decent society will be one in which enemies do not allow their rancour or animosity to prevent them from coming to one another's assistance when they need help.

Rashi notes that the mourning for Aaron was more widespread than for Moses (of Aaron it says, "The entire house of Israel grieved" [Num. 20:29]; in the case of Moses the word "entire" is missing [Deut. 34:8]). The reason is that Aaron was a man of peace; Moses was a man of truth. We love peace, but truth is sometimes hard to bear. People of truth have enemies as well as friends.

The message of the story of Balaam as a whole is this: God saves Israel from its enemies but even God cannot save Israel from itself. To be defended by the Holy One, Israel must be holy, and that includes – as Leviticus insists in chapters 18 and 20 – a strict sexual ethic. Lose that and the nation will lose everything.

Well,' Lockwood said, "if you judge success by the number of enemies you make, that was a highly successful evening.

This was what she liked — a clear, straightforward objective, a simple danger to be faced down. But more than that, she had a sense that things were going her way. She had a bulging sack of banknotes, a head start on her enemies, a gun in hand, and the wilderness up ahead. Life was good again, and the sun was shining too.

Well," Lockwood said, "if you judge success by the number of enemies you make, that was a highly successful evening.

May my enemies live here [London] in summer!

And it especially cannot endure when powerful groups in that society seek at every turn to undermine and destroy its very being. The threats to democracy are not always from enemies abroad. They can come from those within who espouse the language of democracy and use the liberties afforded them by democratic institutions to undermine the substance of democracy. Weimar cautions us to be wary of those people as well. What comes next can be very bad, even worse than imaginable.

Formerly they had been the bitterest foes, but behold, they were now united against their common enemies—common decency and common sense!

Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world

The man in a free society must either blame himself (which leads to the melancholia of those plagued by inferiority complexes) or will be bound to accuse imaginary conspiraces of ill-wishers and downright enemies.

Oh yes. Blood is everything. But the only blood I'm interested in flows from my enemies. Look around you! These cats are bathed in blood. It soaks their fur and laps at their paws. This is the way we survive! We are BloodClan!

We will win this battle because we are fighting for our lives and the lives of our Clanmates. Our enemies are already dead. They fight only out of hate and that will be their weakness.