Top 34 Quotes About Loving Your Enemy

#1. 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

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#2. Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.

Rose O'Neal Greenhow

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#3. Loving an enemy means loving "them.

Jefferson Bethke

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#4. 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

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#5. I think we've always been fascinated with the idea of the romantic outlaw. John Gotti could be in one instance a charismatic, kind and loving family man, and in another, deadly to his enemies. The opportunity to tell the true story of Gotti with John Travolta is a director's dream.

Joe Johnston

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#6. People loving people. That's the enemy of everything that's evil

Garth Brooks

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#7. I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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#8. The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history ... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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#9. I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Voltaire

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#10. Agape is disinterested love ... Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes ... Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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#11. 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

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#12. 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

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#13. If you can't change it don't worry about it.

David Barrett

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#14. It is possible to love one's friend for another reason than God, whereas God is the only reason for loving one's enemy.

Peter Kreeft

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

Norm MacDonald

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

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#17. It was surely one thing to respect the Dark Arts as a dangerous enemy, another to speak of them with a loving caress in his voice?

J.K. Rowling

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#18. 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

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#19. You take up energy towards someone because you think loving your enemy doesn't just mean caving into your enemy. It means first of all liberating yourself.

Robert Thurman

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#20. We don't criticize. Criticism is an enemy. You've got to make loving, positive suggestions.

Dorothy Sarnoff

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#21. We are saved by a man who died loving his enemies.

Timothy Keller

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#22. If you're facing a season of trials, don't allow the enemy to have a field day by putting negative thoughts in your mind. Let go of stinking thinking. Instead of turning away from God in anger or confusion, run into His loving arms where He will comfort you.

Dana Arcuri

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#23. To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#24. The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side.

John Boyle O'Reilly

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#25. 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

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#26. Happy be who generous to relatives, to strangers kindly,
Indifferent to wicked, loving to good, shrewd in dealing be;
Who frank with the learned and courageous with enemy,
Ever humble with elders and stern with his wife does be.
[211] 12.3 Chanakya

Munindra Misra

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#27. The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.

Dalai Lama

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#28. The biggest difference between between religious people and gospel-loving people is that religious people see certain people as the enemies, when Jesus-followers see sin as the enemy.

Jefferson Bethke

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#29. If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.

Elbert Hubbard

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#30. I don't want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

Kevin Hart

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#31. By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She is seldom his enemy.

Christine De Pizan

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#32. To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#33. I agree with your remark about loving your enemy as far as actions are concerned. But for me the cognitive basis is the trust in an unrestricted causality. 'I cannot hate him, because he must do what he does.' That means for me more Spinoza than the prophets.

Albert Einstein

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#34. Loving everybody is polygamy. I care for no friend who loves his enemy equally well.

E.W. Howe

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