Turn The Other Cheek Quotes - Page 2

• I believe in treating others as I want to be treated--but I certainly don't believe in turning the other cheek and the truth is that I never knew any Christians who did either.

  James Hervey

  Christian, Believe, Thinking

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• If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn't work.

  Alice Bag

  Domestic Violence, Turns, Harder

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• When I'm looking for a leader who's going to fight ISIS and keep America secure, I don't want some meek and mild leader or somebody who's going to turn the other cheek.

  Robert Jeffress

  Fighting, Isis, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Jesus Christ said turn the other cheek. Unfortunately Luis Figo is not Jesus Christ.

  Luiz Felipe Scolari

  Soccer, Football, Jesus

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• The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Spiritual, Heart, Audacity

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• We have a lot of villains in the world, all right? And the Catholic doctrine says turn the other cheek, the Christian doctrine. But if you turn the other cheek, you could be annihilated. So when is it justifiable to defend yourself and take aggressive action in that regard, like dropping drones on people?

  Bill O'Reilly

  Christian, People, Catholic

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The dictionary definition of a Christian is one who follows Christ; kind, kindly, Christ-like. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation for good, with the right of secession. A Christian anarchist is therefore one who turns the other cheek, overturns the tables of the moneychangers, and does not need a cop to tell him how to behave. A Christian anarchist does not depend upon bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One-Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused, and dying world.

  Ammon Hennacy

  Christian, Confused, Men

  Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.19, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

  Gary North

  Christian, Long, Facts

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• They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He's always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes.

  Ray Stevens

  Shoes, Social Taboos, Tennis

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• God says, Turn the other cheek. So there's no way I could play in a man's game.

  Dwight Howard

  Men, Games, Play

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• If we cannot find our way to a time when most of us are willing to admit that, at the very least, we are not sure whether or not God wrote some of our books, then we need only count the days to Armageddon-because God has given us far many more reasons to kill one another than to turn the other cheek.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Book, Way

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

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• An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Eye

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.26, RosettaBooks

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• People sometimes focus on the red button hot topic issues and I'm, like, you know, who cares about priestly celibacy? I'm thinking about how am I forgiving my enemies? How am I turning the other cheek? How am I loving my neighbor as myself? To me that's 10,000 times more difficult than to say should priests be married or not be married? I'm, like, I think we're wasting all out energies on the wrong thing. Let's work on the most difficult stuff.

  Lino Rulli

  Thinking, Issues, People

  "A talk with Lino Rulli, 'Catholic Guy' & 'Sinner'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Hands, World, Palestinian

  "Giuliani Says City Won't Accept $10 Million Check From Saudi". www.nytimes.com. October 11, 2001.

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• Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

  John Lydon

  Forgiveness, Razors, Turns

  "NME's Rock 'n' Roll Years". Book by John Tobler, 1992.

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• It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek.

  Kenny Rogers

  Philosophy, Mean, Weak

  Song: Coward Of The County

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• Change for me was really hard because I had built myself up to be a certain kind of man my whole life, as men are where I come from. I thought I got to handle things different that's gonna make me feel like a real pussy. For me it was hard to turn the other cheek. Even though it's a stronger choice. It was very hard to make the change, but I had to in order to survive. Otherwise they would have won.

  Mickey Rourke

  Trust, Real, Men

  "Mickey Rourke Talks Immortals, Life, and Sin City". Interview with Wilson Morales, www.blackfilm.com. October 31, 2011.

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• If somebody stamps on your head in that way, you wouldn't say, 'Thank you very much, can I turn the other cheek'. Only Jesus Christ did that.

  Arsene Wenger

  Jesus, Way, Christ

  "Emmanuel Adebayor faces five-match ban after FA lay violent conduct charge" by David Hytner, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2009.

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• If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste? In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek.

  Angela Elwell Hunt

  Sweet, Revenge, Knights

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• The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and following the ignorant Negro preachers, we have thought that it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalizing us.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White, America

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and be kind and be patient and be nonviolent and turn the other cheek.

  Malcolm X

  Jail, Be Kind, Patient

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• I don't trust any white man who teaches Negroes to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent, which means to be defenseless in the face of a very brutal, criminal enemy. No. That's my yardstick for measuring whites.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Men, White Man

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Enemy, Faces

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though.

  Jim Carrey

  Jesus, Boys, Catholic

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