Love Your Enemies Quotes - Page 2

• Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Expression, Surrender

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Hate, War

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• I think this is what people misunderstand about Martin Luther King saying to love your enemies. They think he was just using this silly little phrase, but what he meant was that as Black Americans we need to let our anger go, because holding on to it we hold ourselves down. We oppress ourselves by holding on to anger.

  Bell Hooks

  Kings, Silly, Love You

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you

  Luke the Evangelist

  Bible, Jesus, Hate

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• Love your enemy. But don't forget he is not your friend

  Paulo Coelho

  Love You, Inspiration, Enemy

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• 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.

  Hate, Love You, Creative

  "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Confidence

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• If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

  Nelson Mandela

  Friendship, Inspiring, Leadership

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• Love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can't stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they'll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That's love, you see. It is redemptive.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Love You, Long

  "Loving Your Enemies". Sermon by Martin Luther King, Jr. at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• The Law found more than it lost when Christ said, ‘Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven’ (Matthew 5:44-45). This most important commandment summarizes in a word the universal discipline of patience, since it does not allow us to do evil even to people who deserve it.

  Tertullian

  Father, Love You, Son

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• When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

  Marilyn Manson

  Love, Enemy, Doe

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• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

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• Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love You, Opportunity, Enemy

  "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

  E. W. Howe

  Love, Lying, Enemy

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• I ask you to try something. If someone grieves you, or dishonors you, or takes something of yours, then pray like this: "Lord, we are all your creatures. Pity your servants, and turn them to repentance," and then you will perceptibly bear grace in your soul. Induce your heart to love your enemies, and the Lord, seeing your good will, shall help you in all things, and will Himself show you experience. But whoever thinks evil of his enemies does not have love for God and has not known God.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Love your enemies-they may tell you the truth.

  Jane Heap

  Love You, Enemy, May

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  Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

  Frank Sinatra

  Love, Bible, Sarcastic

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• If you love your enemy, that means you want your enemy to be happy.

  Robert Thurman

  Love You, Mean, Enemy

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• It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5)

  Rob Bell

  Enemy, Praying, Fortitude

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• Love your enemies and hate your friends, your enemies remain the same your friends always change

  Curtis Jackson

  Hate, Love You, Enemy

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• I'm thinking of love in action and not something where you say, "Love your enemies," and just leave it at that, but you love your enemies to the point that you're willing to sit-in at a lunch counter in order to help them find themselves. You're willing to go to jail.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love You, Thinking, Order

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• 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.

  Inspirational, Jesus, Love You

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.98, Beacon Press

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• So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Jesus, Love You

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends"

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hate, Love You, Mean

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• Love your enemy. It will not only puzzle him, But finally illumine him.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Enemy, Puzzles

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