Quotes About Turning The Other Cheek

#1. I believe in beauty. I believe in goodness. I believe in the power of turning: the other cheek, time, curve of the earth.

Anna White

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

Anne Ellis

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

Flannery O'Connor

#4. 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

#5. Forgiveness isn't something I'm preoccupied with - turning the other cheek isn't my trip.

Karl Lagerfeld

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

John C. Maxwell

#7. 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

#8. The speaker calls for a careful examination of Christ's principle of turning the other cheek before we use it as a demand or excuse for total personal pacifism. After all, when literally struck on the cheek, Jesus did question the legitimacy of the authority by which this was done.

John Thackway

#9. Turning the other cheek often leaves you with two broken jaws, but Jesus is still King, and still right.

Russell D. Moore

#10. The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that.

Greg Iles

#11. We can recognize that instead of lashing back, the best answer is turning the other cheek. This may be easy for some, but for others - especially those who have been deeply hurt - abandoning the urge to inflict injury will require spiritual strength, prayer, and self-control.

Anonymous

#12. 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

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

Gerald Stanley Lee

#14. Unfortunately for the Culver Creek Nothings, we weren't playing the deaf-and-blind school. We were playing some Christian school from downtown Birmingham, a team stocked with huge, gargantuan apemen with thick beards and a strong distaste for turning the other cheek.

John Green

#15. Turning the other cheek only gets that slapped as well.

Christina Engela

#16. I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek, fingers light on my temple. "And Sassenach," he whispered, "Your face is my heart.

Diana Gabaldon

#17. When searching for justice, what you sometimes find is just more trouble.

Maryann Austin

#18. Turning my head so I can look into his eyes, I strum my fingers across his cheek. You're right. I think we've both had enough darkness. I want to live in light.

J.B. McGee

#19. When we parted, on the Boulevard du Montparnasse, I leaned over to give her a kiss on the cheek. 'If you do find paradise,' she said, turning to leave, 'send me a grape.

Adam Leith Gollner

#20. In the eighth grade I found I had a voice for opera, so I followed that path a little, but my impulse has always been an actor. I have always liked cinema, and let's face it, opera singers are just bad actors! I didn't want to translate myself in that direction.

Robert Davi

#21. A true friendship is one that is strong enough to travel the two-lane highway of honesty! EL

Evinda Lepins

#22. Cancer is nothing more than a healthy cell that starts replicating out of control.

Dan Brown

#23. Imagine living in a world where we no longer believe that war can lead to peace. War can't lead to peace anymore than ignorance can lead to knowledge. War leads to premature death, pain, suffering, hatred, fear and more separation.

Renee Paule

#24. I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.

Imre Kertesz