Top 1200 Love Your Enemies Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

My oh my, think of what you're going to be like when you have your completely Heavenly body that can do all the things you can do now and more, including flying and floating and appearing and disappearing and walking through walls and locked doors and having marvelous supernatural miraculous powers of defense and judgement upon your enemies, protection for your friends, and to be able to help the poor humans that are still living on Earth during the Millennium to learn more about the Lord and love Him and serve Him even as you do.

And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to which you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning - enemies of society, as you call them. You're kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God's justice? And when you find that notion inconvenient it's easy enough for you to put it on one side. Hell is not to love any more, Madame. Not to love any more!

O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

People will like you who never met you, they think you're absolutely wonderful; and then people also will hate you, for reasons that have nothing to do with any real experience with you. People don't want to lose their enemies. We have favorite enemies, people we love to hate and we hate to love. If they do something good, we don't like it. I found myself doing that with Ronald Reagan. He is anathema to me. If he does something that's reasonable, I find my mind trying to find some way to interpret it so that it's not reasonable, so that somewhere it's jingoist extremism.

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

if I love something I do it, and if I don't, I don't. I think that this is the most important choice that any of us can make in life, in art, in history: to do the thing you love. If you love it, it is important. If you love it then while you are doing it, you are a true expression of yourself and your time and your story. You are authentic. If you don't love it you betray not only yourself but also your history, your culture, your position in your society.

[The ruling elites] know who their enemies are, and their enemies are the people, the people at home and the people abroad. Their enemies are anybody who wants more social justice, anybody who wants to use the surplus value of society for social needs rather than for individual class greed, that's their enemy.

Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies.

Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.

We all have enemies, but my enemies would probably describe me as surprisingly ruthless.

A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself.

Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share.

My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them.

If the cross is a personal act of violence perpetrated by God towards humankind but borne by his Son, then it makes a mockery of Jesus' own teaching to love your enemies and to refuse to repay evil with evil.

All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own church.

When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

Don't you run around here trying to make friends with somebody who's depriving you of your rights. They're not your friends, no, they're your enemies. Treat them like that.

The world is restructuring, and all of the enemies that used to exist are kind of gone, so now they are looking out for new enemies.

Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer.

You don't often get a choice in who your enemies are, who you're friends with, what your situation is, and the environment you're placed in. You just have to make do with what you have.

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.

Daddy taught us through his philosophy of nonviolence, which placed love at the centerpiece, that through that love we can turn enemies into friends. Through that love, we can create more dignified atmospheres.

If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a man praying for his enemies as he died for them, sacrificing for them, loving them - if that sinks into your heart of hearts, it's going to produce the kind of life that the early Christians produced. The most inclusive possible life out of the most exclusive possible claim - and that is this is the truth. But what is the truth? The truth is a God become weak, loving and dying for the people who opposed him, dying forgiving them.

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

I don’t need friends. All they do is eat your food, drink your beer, then spew your secrets the first time you do something that displeases them. No offense, but when you have as many enemies as I do, you keep your secrets under lock and key. (Solin)

I think all of us have enemies in disguise, but there is nothing much you can do about that. You have to live with it. I just do my own thing and let the enemies be.

You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.

And yet this same Deity says to me, resist not evil; pray for those that despitefully use you; love your enemies, but I will eternally damn mine. It seems to me that even gods should practice what they preach.

Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.

The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.

Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.

Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand.

Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.

Never allow your enemies to educate your children.

I used love like money, but love doesn't work like money. It is not a commodity. When we barter with it, we all lose. When the church does not love it's enemies, it fuels their rage. It makes them hate us more.

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

When you don't forgive you permit your enemies to live rent free in your head -evict them today.

Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies.

The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

No, make something different from war. Don't allow your enemies to be enemies. Make them something else, because otherwise they have a power over you that they should not have. If you think in the same ways as the past, you will only get new versions of the past. Think differently. That's what I'm saying.

It's an old axiom of mine: marry your enemies and behead your friends.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

And when that time comes, let's hope your friends outnumber your enemies.

The bombers were enemies of Islam and enemies of the country. We will do everything and anything needed to stop them.

Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.

Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

Because I love you," Iain said simply. "I always have. I love your bad temper. I love your jealous streak. I love your strength and pigheadedness. And I know you love me. And sometimes love makes people go a little crazy. The insanity won't last forever...I hope.

Undue enmity with enemies does not serve the interests of the system. Enemies must be dealt with wisely and prudently.

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.