Quotes about Enemies

To kill them teaches nothing," Anselmo said. "You cannot exterminate them because from their seed comes more with greater hatred. Prison is nothing. Prison only makes hatred. That all our enemies should learn.

People who love their enemies should, at least, tell the truth about their friends.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere…. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

It is easier to forgive yourself of a thousand misdeeds than to forgive your enemy of one.

We will print the words of Christ who is with us always, even to the end of the world. "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who persecute and calumniate you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven, who makes His sun to rise on the good and the evil, and sends rain on the just and unjust.

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

By His life, death, and resurrection, our Savior has conquered our enemies, and by His Spirit He has granted us to share in the victory.

The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

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.

But, though persecuting malice raged, yet the Gospel shone with resplendent brightness; and, firm as an impregnable rock, withstood the attacks of its boisterous enemies with success.

Stay on the high road. Let God be your vindicator. Let Him pay your enemies back. He sees what's happening. He sees every injustice, every hurt, every wrong. If you'll leave it up to God, He'll vindicate you better than you can vindicate yourself.

Proverbs 16:7 says, "When God approves of your life, even your enemies will end up shaking your hand" (The Message).