Loving Your Enemies Quotes

There’s something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.

Loving Your Enemies… Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. Yes it is love that will save our world and civilization; love even for our enemies.

Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, ‘Love your enemies.’ It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals.

Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

I believe space exploration is an absolute necessity for the survival of human race.

Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.

Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning.

So when Jesus says “Love your enemies,” he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.

I agree with your remark about loving your enemy as far as actions are concerned. But for me the cognitive basis is the trust in an unrestricted causality. ‘I cannot hate him, because he must do what he does.’ That means for me more Spinoza than the prophets.

This question, Is loving your enemy a life practice?, I like that question. It is a life practice, certainly, for everyone. It relates to
the idea of, Is this a householder practice or is it a monk practice? I think it’s both. Everyone has that practice.

Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love

It is Love that will save our world and our civilization.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate.