Turn The Other Cheek Quotes

• I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Humorous, Credit, Tongue

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.86, Macmillan

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• You cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can. If you love everyone and everything you lose your natural powers of selection and wind up being a pretty poor judge of character and quality. If anything is used too freely it loses its true meaning. Therefore, the Satanist believes you should love strongly and completely those who deserve your love, but never turn the other cheek to your enemy!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Believe, Character, Thinking

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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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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• People always say turn the other cheek. If you turn the other cheek, I'm gonna hit you in the other cheek too.

  Charles Barkley

  People, Turns, Ifs

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• Turning the other cheek isn't submissive. It's defiant.

  Roy H. Williams

  Submissive, Cheeks

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• Peace requires something far more difficult than revenge or merely turning the other cheek; it requires empathizing with the fears and unmet needs that provide the impetus for people to attack each other. Being aware of these feelings and needs, people lose their desire to attack back because they can see the human ignorance leading to these attacks; instead, their goal becomes providing the empathic connection and education that will enable them to transcend their violence and engage in cooperative relationships.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Revenge, Ignorance, People

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2005). “Speak Peace in a World of Conflict: What You Say Next Will Change Your World”, p.129, PuddleDancer Press

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• Turning the other cheek is not always the answer. In a certain situation on a certain day for a certain person, it's correct. Sometimes a good roundhouse kick on a certain day in a certain situation for a certain person is correct.

  Frederick Lenz

  Answers, Sometimes, Christianity

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• Many people believe in turning the other cheek, especially when it is your cheek.

  Anne Ellis

  Forgiveness, Believe, People

  Anne Ellis (1999). “The Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.261, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen.

  George Orwell

  Blow, Doe, Complaining

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.330, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.

  John C. Maxwell

  Helping Others, Giving, Keep Smiling

  John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (1997). “Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.

  Maya Angelou

  Baseball, Long, Trying

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• The conflict will always beyond ur strength.The enemy always pushes us beyond our personal, inbred, preset limits concerning how far we'll go for God:"Here's how far I'm going to love,this is how many times I'll turn the other cheek."The test kills the limits of our humanity,til we're like Christ in everything We're left with a choice:Become Christlike or gradually shrivel into superficial hypocrites: angry people who have stopped walking with God, who blame others for our bitterness.

  Francis Frangipane

  Hypocrite, People, Choices

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

  Luke the Evangelist

  Bible, Jesus, Hate

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• Not only our eternal salvation depends upon our willingness and capacity to forgive wrongs committed against us. Our joy and satisfaction in this life, and our true freedom, depend upon our doing so. When Christ bade us turn the other cheek, walk the second mile, give our cloak to him who takes our coat, was it to be chiefly out of consideration for the bully, the brute, the thief? Or was it to relieve the one aggrieved of the destructive burden that resentment and anger lay upon us?

  Marion D. Hanks

  Giving, Bully, Joy

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• Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Jiu Jitsu, Moral, Kind

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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• You cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Thinking, Satanic, Ridiculous

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• You know, Sage, Jesus didn't tell us to forgive everyone. He said turn the other cheek, but only if you the one who was hit. Even the Lord's Prayer says it loud and clear: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Not others. What Jesus challenges us to do is to let go of the wrong done to you personally, not the wrong done to someone else. But most Christians incorrectly assume that this means that being a good christian means forgiving all sins, and the sinners.

  Jodi Picoult

  Christian, Letting Go, Jesus

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• Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.

  Malcolm X

  Teaching, Men, White Man

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• The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to go the second mile, to turn the other cheek, but Jesus says if we are His disciples we shall always do these things. There will be no spirit of--"Oh, well, I cannot do any more, I have been so misrepresented and misunderstood". . . Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is--Never look for justice, but never cease to live it.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Teaching, Men

  Oswald Chambers (1985). “My Utmost for His Highest”

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• Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Cheeks

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• As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.

  Dorothy Day

  Giving Up, Bears, Injustice

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• ...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

  Richard Peck

  Running, Four, Trouble

  Richard Peck (2010). “A Season of Gifts”, p.25, Penguin

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• I think that any black man who teaches black people to turn the other cheek and suffer peacefully after they've been turning the cheek and suffering peacefully for 400 years in a land of bondage, under the most cruel, inhuman and wicked slavemaster that any people have ever been under, he is doing those people an injustice, and he's a traitor to his own people.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, Years

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• To turn the other cheek is to teach would-be cheats that cheating pays.

  Peter Singer

  Life, Cheating, Would Be

  Peter Singer (1995). “How are We to Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-interest”

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• Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.

  Bono

  Kings, Real, Thinking

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