Quotes About Enemies

We wanted love, peace, and justice, except for our enemies, whom we wanted to burn in Hell, preferably for eternity.

There are many colours of roses to be used in different situations, but there must be a colour invented that could turn an enemy directly into a friend when we would give it to.

We were at one time also "alienated from God and were enemies in [our] minds" (Colossians 1:21), but God has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ (v. 22). In contrast, non-Christians are "separate from Christ…without hope and without God in the world" (Ephesians 2:12).

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

Nearly all the laws which were originally framed with the intention of benefiting the workers, have either turned into weapons in their enemies' hands, or become dead letters, unless the workers through their organizations have directly enforced the observance. So that in the end, it is direct action that has to be relied on anyway.

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

You have dangerous friends. You need not fear enemies.

A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.

I seem to vaguely remember a time when America had confidence. And guts. And soldiers fighting a war didn't need to be given "permission" to defend themselves from enemies trying to kill them.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Lack of confidence in yourself, Can allow your enemies to hurt you easily.

My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.

You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase 'Peace through strength.'

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

Vladimir Putin devastates and destroys his enemies. He's been devastating and destroying the Syrian people. And Hillary Clinton spoke out against that. She had the courage to do that.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.

Perhaps the reason politics has proved such a snare for the church is that power rarely coexists with love. People in power draw up lists of friends and enemies, then reward their friends and punish their enemies. Christians are commanded to love even their enemies.

The only hope for the future lay in an all-embracing attitude of forgiveness of the peoples who had been our enemies.

The church has allowed itself to get so swept up in political issues that it plays by the rules of adversarial power. In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square. Somehow the paramount command to love—even to love our enemies—gets lost.

God, help me to see others not as my enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.