Top 89 Quotes About Love Your Enemy

#1. You cannot find one single verse in the New Testament that calls for violence against non-believers. Jesus said to love your enemies. Muhammad said to butcher your enemies.

Robert Jeffress

#2. Love can either be your greatest companion or your worst enemy, depending on your pride to accept or deny things.

Anthony Liccione

#3. When you forgive and love your enemy, you are always the winner.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.

Augustine Of Hippo

#5. Love your enemies but deal with them shrewdly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. By creating problems for others you will never able solve your own problem.
When you will try to solve your enemy's problem, your problem will disappear.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Think of, at the moment of dying, is there will be any enemy for you? None! Everyone will be the best friend. So win all your enemies with your divine love when you are living.

Debasish Mridha

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

Frank Sinatra

#9. A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. So, keep love in your heart if not your best friend today will turn to your worst enemy tomorrow.

Osunsakin Adewale

#10. If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.

Anonymous

#11. Loving your enemy. Doing good things for evil people. Never taking vengeance. Responding to violence with nonviolent love - even if it brings suffering. These are not options, but the primary character traits of those who claim to follow a crucified God.

Preston Sprinkle

#12. You forgot another lesson: Never turn your back until you know your enemy
is dead. Looks like we'll have to go over the lesson again the next time
I see you - which will be soon.
Love, D.

Richelle Mead

#13. Humiliate your enemy is dangerous.

Karen Armstrong

#14. Some enemies are part and parcel of our lives, we cannot destroy them without risking our own survival

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#15. Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

Jodi Picoult

#16. Go my friend
bestow your love
even on your enemies
if you touch their hearts
what do you think will happen.

Rumi

#17. Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.

Soren Kierkegaard

#18. Dont expect your enemies to ever love you, or even like you, only respect you

Imi Lichtenfeld

#19. In faith, I'm a believer in the do's - you know, love your neighbor, love your enemy. I don't spend a lot of time thinking on the don'ts 'cause I can't get the do's right.

John Kasich

#20. You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.

Malcolm X

#21. Love your enemies ... it's not always an easy tenet to live by ... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well.

Lea Salonga

#22. Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day.

Bill Vaughan

#23. It is better to have an enemy who will fight you in an open field then a lover who will kill you in your sleep.

Marie Lu

#24. Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies.

Suzy Kassem

#25. The best gifts to give: To your friend, loyalty; To your enemy, forgiveness; To your boss, service; To a child, a good example; To your parents, gratitude and devotion; To your mate, love and faithfulness; To all men and women, charity.

Oren Arnold

#26. Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

Mark Twain

#27. You're your best friend and worst enemy.

Debasish Mridha

#28. Practice loving those who do not love you. Feel for those who do not feel for you. Be generous to those who are generous only to themselves. If you heap hatred on your enemy, neither he nor you are able to perceive the inherent beauty of your soul.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#29. When you can love your enemy unconditionally, that is the practice of divine love.

Debasish Mridha

#30. Then I read this: "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven" (Matthew 5:43-45). That's it! I was thunderstruck

Mosab Hassan Yousef

#31. There will be no enemy if you try to kill him with the power of your love.

Debasish Mridha

#32. Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.

Norm MacDonald

#33. When someone you love dies, he becomes your enemy; he fights you tooth and nail from a hidden position; he successfully raids what small provisions you have gathered to keep yourself going.

Rosalyn Drexler

#34. Whenever you can call your enemy and tell him that you truly love him with compassion, then you are practicing the power of true love.

Debasish Mridha

#35. Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies?

Martin Luther King Jr.

#36. And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

Khalil Gibran

#37. When you lose your enemy, it's like you lost your love!

Fereidoon Yazdi

#38. The enemy plotted against you and awaited your downfall. Look at you surviving. And your enemies can not figure out how. What you have inside is greater than any negative force.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#39. If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.

Miroslav Volf

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

Sri Chinmoy

#41. Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.

Lawrence Durrell

#42. If you claim to be a real friend then be real in your soul. If you claim to be fake then be an enemy instead.

Santosh Kalwar

#43. Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.

Bryant McGill

#44. Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

Mark Twain

#45. When you see a person acting violently, ask yourself whether he knows how powerful he is. If he knew his power, would he feel the need to assert it?

Vironika Tugaleva

#46. I profess myself an enemy to all other joys, which the most precious square of sense possesses, and find I am alone felicitate in your dear highness love.

William Shakespeare

#47. Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.

Joseph Campbell

#48. The problem in our society is the ego psychology and conventional wisdom about "look out for #1." That conventional wisdom thinks that "love your enemy" is to some a principle no one can ever live by.

Robert Thurman

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

E.W. Howe

#50. It is easy to love your friend, but sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy.

Sun Tzu

#51. Helping yourself is wisdom.
Helping your neighbor is kindness.
Helping your friend is virtue.
Helping your family is duty.
Helping your enemy is love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#52. Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#53. When you look at your enemy in the face and all you feel is love, then you have achieved acceptance.

Joan Ambu

#54. Some friendships are formed by a commonality of interests and ideas: you both love judo or camping or making your own sausage. Other friendships are forged in alliance against a common enemy.

David Sedaris

#55. While love shuts down areas of the brain associated with judgment and reasoning by contrast those consumed with hate have very active reasoning facilities. It takes logic to figure out how to attack your enemy.

Randall Parker

#56. The enemy stays in the hearts of friends. Watch what your friends know about you and watch what you tell your friends, remember, egoism breeds jealousy and ends a relationship in discord.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#57. Which is a greater sin in the eyes of God: to let a child suffer and die to preserve your reputation, or to become friends with your enemy?

Jeremy Courtney

#58. If anyone here is secretly dreaming of making the Olympics, I can tell you exactly how to do it, two words: Sustained Obsession. The obsession isn't so hard. But keeping it sustained is a tough nut to crack. A heart-felt enemy can go a long way to sustaining your obsession. Love your enemy.

Brad Alan Lewis

#59. I'm not your enemy, baby," I whispered, kissing at the edge of her mouth. "I protect you. Adore you. I fucking love you.

Lucian Bane

#60. Jesus never taught revolution, the kind with swords and battles and bloodshed. He talked about a revolution of love. Love your neighbor. Love your enemy.

Janette Oke

#61. Love your friends and be just to your enemies.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#62. When he [Christ] says 'Forgive your enemies', it is not for the sake of the enemy but for one's own sake that he says so, and because Love is more beautiful than Hate.

Oscar Wilde

#63. It is only once you see the baffled expression on the face of your enemy when you give his cruel words a warm smile that you'll understand, truly understand, what love is all about.

Vironika Tugaleva

#64. The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters.

Genghis Khan

#65. Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Paulo Coelho

#67. Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes
and your enemy looks just like your neighbor.

Soren Kierkegaard

#68. My father's biggest achievement with us as children was that he taught us that everyone is human and equal, even your enemy has the same needs and wants that you do: understanding, love, inclusion.

Rula Jebreal

#69. Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation.

Desmond Tutu

#70. Respecting people is my default state of mind.
But if there is a man does the otherwise to me,
I'll make him understand in anyway he'll listen.

Toba Beta

#71. The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is loving myself 100%. And that's still a battle. I love myself, but sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. And I think I've been my worst enemy in life, because others haven't been able to do anything to me unless I allowed them to do it.

Mike Epps

#72. Anyone who prays for the death of his enemy must consider who tempted Jesus Christ, the persecution of the apostles and the Psalm 23 of David

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#73. I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#74. And God said "Love Your Enemy," and I obeyed him and loved myself.

Kahlil Gibran

#75. You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

Saint Augustine

#76. Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed.

Rachel Holmes

#77. If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.

Jaggi Vasudev

#78. Love your enemies and drive them nuts.

Brother Dave Gardner

#79. Love your enemies but be wise when dealing with them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#80. When you do find your enemy, remember he will expect and welcome your hate. So surprise him, and let him fear your love.

Emm Cole

#81. 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

#82. Love your enemies-they may tell you the truth.

Jane Heap

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

Robert Thurman

#84. Touch your enemies' heart with love. It will bloom flowers of gratitude and joy.

Debasish Mridha

#85. You are Destined for Greatness. The enemy seeks to destroy your hopes and dreams. It is Important that you Activate Your Faith. Believe with All Your Heart. Nothing is Impossible for God. You shall Fulfill Your Destiny.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#86. The greatest enemy to love is your pride

Pete Wilson

#87. Sometimes duplicity and treason are markers of the enemy, and sometimes, the failed intention of a masterful ally. But, nevertheless, as they burden you with a vexing brand of love, they become nothing more than the kiss of Judas, pressing a crown of thorns into your flesh.

Addison Moore

#88. If the enemy is a significant part of your body, then how do you destroy it without killing yourself?

Toba Beta

#89. You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.

Saint Augustine

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