So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.
Are you angry with someone? Pray for that person. That is what Christian love is.
Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.
It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.
Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be to lift up our hands and bless him. Our enemies are the blessed of the Lord. Their curse can do us no harm. May their poverty be enriched with all the riches of God, with the blessing of Him whom they seek to oppose in vain. We are ready to endure their curses so long as they redound to their blessing.
Love your enemy. It will not only puzzle him, But finally illumine him.
My neighbour, or my servant, or my child, has done me an injury, and it is just that he should suffer an injury in return. Such is the doctrine which Jesus Christ summoned his whole resources of persuasion to oppose.
Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.
Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.
Jesus was a pacifist.
Jesus didn't teach people to kill.
People always say turn the other cheek. If you turn the other cheek, I'm gonna hit you in the other cheek too.
Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.
Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest avenger of them all. Defy him and you burn in eternal hell, an act of revenge which is completely out of proportion to the crime
When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.
If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.
I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.
The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.
The most revolutionary statement in history is "Love thine enemy
Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.
Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?
A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion-- To pray for them that have done scathe to us.
I think everyone should treat one another in a Christian manner. I will not, however, be responsible for the consequences.
From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us.
He (Jesus) knew that the old eye-for-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with aggressive love.
