Quotes about Enemy

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but—more frequently than not—struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

Outwardly you keep the law with works out of fear of punishment or love of gain. Likewise you do everything without free desire and love of the law; you act out of aversion and force. You'd rather act otherwise if the law didn't exist. It follows, then, that you, in the depths of your heart, are an enemy of the law.

The devil is our mortal enemy, the world attacks us horribly, and it is evident everywhere that there is no more miserable and contemptible person on earth than a Christian. That is why we must have a greater, stronger, and more reliable comfort, to offset all their defiance and might.

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

One who conquers fear conquers his greatest enemy.

Crazy was a potent enemy against the establishment, but how to predict what a crazy man will do?

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.

When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.