Quotes about Enemies
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, cherish God.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
— Marianne Williamson
Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
it is for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell...
— Jonathan Edwards
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.
— Jonathan Edwards
Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.
— Graham Greene
In the kingdom that Jesus inaugurated it is precisely a person's love for their enemies and their pledge to never retaliate that is the ultimate sign of their loyalty to God.
— Gregory Boyd
We are to see a need and meet it—no questions asked. We are to love even our enemies with an unconditional, nonjudgmental love, and, thereby, offer everlasting life to all who are thirsty. To do this means we must refrain from doing what Jesus never did: namely, positioning ourselves as wiser, morally superior guardians and "fixers" of others. Moral guardianship is what the Pharisees did—not Jesus.
— Gregory Boyd
The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.
— Robert Brault
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
— Abraham Lincoln
The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.
— Abraham Lincoln