Inspirational Quotes on Enemies

“Nature teaches us to love our friends, but religion our enemies.”

“We may not be able to prevent other people from being our enemies, but we can prevent ourselves from being enemies toward others.”

“Take heed thou makest not the least child thine enemy by offering wrong to him; God will right the wicked even upon the saint.”

“It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.”

“For no man by sprinkling himself with holy water, and with eating holy bread, is more merciful than before, or forgiveth wrong, or becometh at one with his enemy, or is more patient, and less covetous, and so forth; which are the sure tokens of the soul-health.”

“Cherish your enemies; they may be blessings in disguise.”

“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”

“If I wanted to punish an enemy it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.”

“War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.”

“Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.”

“Pursue not a victory too far. He hath conquered well that hath made his enemy fly; thou mayest beat him to a desperate resistance, which may ruin thee.”

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.”

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies: probably because they are generally the same people.”

“We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.”

“...Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. It is an entirely ‘neighbor-regarding concern for others,’ which discovers the neighbor in every man it meets. Therefore, Agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both. If one loves an individual merely on account of his friendliness, he loves him for the sake of the benefits to be gained from the friendship, rather than for the friend’s own sake. Consequently, the best way to assure oneself that love is disinterested is to have love for the enemy-neighbor from whom you can expect no good in return, but only hostility and persecution.”

“No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.”

“The best way to destroy an enemy is to turn him into a friend.”

“The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.”

“Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like cheapjack's wares. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, without church discipline, communion without confession, absolution without personal confession.”

“Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?”