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Quotes About Enemies

Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Do not confuse one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies?
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Vea a sus enemigos no como fallas de Dios, sino como proyectos de Él.
~ Max Lucado
Your enemies still figure into God's plan. Their pulse is proof: God hasn't given up on them. They may be out of God's will, but not out of his reach. You honor God when you see them, not as his failures, but as his projects.
~ Max Lucado
Jesse continued to stare down at me. Are you so sure you were the intended victim, Susannah? Well, of course it was me. I know it sounds weird, but I was almost offended at the idea that there might be someone else on the planet worthier of murdering than myself. I must say, I pride myself on the number of enemies I've acquired. In the mediator business, I've always considered it a sign that things were going well if there were a bunch of people who wanted me dead.
~ Meg Cabot
Hay que tener un gran valor para enfrentarse a nuestros enemigos, pero se necesita aún más valor para enfrentarse a nuestros amigos. —J. K. ROWLING, HARRY POTTER Y LA PIEDRA FILOSOFAL
~ Melissa de la Cruz
The battle isn't ours; it is God's. While we praise Him, He sends our enemies scurrying.
~ Merlin R. Carothers
Disagreement is part of being a person who has choices. One of those choices is to respect others and engage in intelligent conversation about differences of opinion without becoming enemies, eventually allowing us to move forward to compromise.
~ Ben Carson
Enemies come soon enough in a mans life,' he told me, 'you don't need to seek them out
~ Bernard Cornwell
That man is my Arthur, a great warlord and a hero who fought against impossible odds to such effect that even fifteen hundred years later his enemies love and revere his memory.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Next time we fight the Danes you'll be with me. You? Because we are warriors, I said, and our job is to kill our enemies, not be nursemaids to weaklings.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Some mothers soften their sons, but Osbert was motherless and I had raised him hard because a man must be hard. The world is filled with enemies.
~ Bernard Cornwell
We Irish know one thing above all others: an enemy forgiven is an enemy who will have to be fought over and over again.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any great ideal which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their enemies. Good wine needs no bush, and good morals need no bated breath.
~ Bertrand Russell
We love those who hate our enemies, and if we had no enemies there would be very few people whom we should love.
~ Bertrand Russell
Politicians do not find any attractions in a view which does not lend itself to party declamation, and ordinary mortals prefer views which attribute misfortune to the machinations of their enemies.
~ Bertrand Russell
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand. I would rather be reported by my bitterest enemy among philosophers than by a friend innocent of philosophy.
~ Bertrand Russell
Love by faith. Love our enemies by faith. Love our neighbors by faith. Love fellow believers by faith. Love our family members by faith. Love our spouses by faith. Love our in-laws by faith. Love a rebellious teenager by faith. Love our betrayer by faith. Love an ill and bitter parent by faith. Love by faith, not just by feeling.
~ Beth Moore
Psalm 18 [David] sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: 1 I love you, O LORD, my strength. 2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. 3 I call to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I am saved from my enemies.
~ Beth Moore
The Lord your God is the One who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory. Deuteronomy 20:4
~ Beth Moore
A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.
~ Richard Holbrooke
I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.
~ Rupert Murdoch
May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news of her noble exertions in continuance of those principles which have placed her so high in the annals of history and among the nations of the earth.
~ Marquis de Lafayette