Enmity Quotes - Page 2

• Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Religious, Prayer

  "Becoming Hindu and Finding the Essence of All Spiritual Paths" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The only real argument against the Bible is an unholy life. When a man argues against the Word of God, follow him home, and see if you cannot discover the reason of his enmity to the Word of the Lord. It lies in some sort of sin.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Life, Bible, God

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

  48 Copy quote

  Show source

• Frequently the enemy entices Christians to harbor an unforgiving spirit - a very common symptom indeed among God's children. Such bitterness and fault-finding and enmity inflict a severe blow upon spiritual life.

  Watchman Nee

  Forgiveness, Christian, Spiritual

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.554, Christian Fellowship Publishers

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cast out envy; you can have all that you want, and you need not envy any man what he has. Above all things, see to it that you do not hold malice or enmity toward any one; to do so cuts you off from the mind whose treasures you seek to make your own. Lay aside all narrow personal ambition and determine to seek the highest good.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Ambition, Cutting, Men

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting”, p.188, e-artnow

  55 Copy quote

  Show source

• But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Pride, Men

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence may teach us how to weave fresh garlands for the graves of those we loved: may purify our thoughts, and bear down before it old enmity and hatred; but beneath all this, there lingers, in the least reflective mind, a vague and half-formed consciousness of having held such feelings long before, in some remote and distant time, which calls up solemn thoughts of distant times to come, and bends down pride and worldliness beneath it.

  Charles Dickens

  Country, Nature, Memories

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Oliver Twist”, p.199, Pan Macmillan

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I will despair, and be at enmity
  With cozening hope.

  William Shakespeare

  Despair

  William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe (1823). “Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.376

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.

  Karl Radek

  Party, Mean, Ideas

  11 Copy quote

• I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world

  William Shakespeare

  Safety, World, Speak

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.449, Barnes & Noble Publishing

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else’s. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Pride, Cutting, People

  10 Copy quote

• Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Hatred, Enemy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.97, SCM Press

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.

  John Milton

  Sex, Spirit, Assuming

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 423

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

  Garet Garrett

  Fundamentals, Enterprise, Deals

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

  17 Copy quote

• Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

  Edmund Burke

  Power, Law, Arbitrary

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.479, Transaction Publishers

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

  Saint Augustine

  Thinking, Vanity, Imagination

  6 Copy quote

• It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Natural, Proof

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “According to Promise”, p.27, Gideon House Books

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• People who expect enmity to suddenly convert into love are probably using the wrong model.

  Judith Butler

  People, Models

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Nurse, Remember, Profit

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Yousef Saanei

  Enemy, Doe, Interest

  "Cleric hits Ahmadinejad for making enemies". www.washingtontimes.com. March 15, 2007.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Glorious God stated: "Whosoever shows enmity to someone devoted to Me, I shall be at war with him, etc."

  Al-Nawawi

  War, Soul, Etc

  66 Copy quote

• A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.

  Laurence Sterne

  Good Night, Lying, Heart

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.341

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Hate, Sadness, People

  11 Copy quote

• Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows rapidly and luxuriantly. Name anything bad in man and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with particular liveliness and abundance.

  Maxim Gorky

  Lying, Struggle, Ambition

  144 Copy quote

• Secret enmities are more to be feared than open ones.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Secret, Secrecy

  7 Copy quote