Loving Your Enemies Quotes:

Happiness is loving your enemies.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Enemy, Loving Your Enemies

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

- Norm MacDonald

topic: Loving You, Enemy, Loving Your Enemies

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.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Jesus, Love You, Thinking, Loving Your Enemies, Love Your Enemies

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Our World, Keys, Enemy, Loving Your Enemies, Love Your Enemies

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Love, Friendship, Change, Love And Hate, Soul Force

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate...

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Hate, Social Equality, Love And Hate, Make Peace Not War, Social Programs

It"s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what you"ve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; you"ll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you"ll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.

- Malcolm X

topic: Regret, Hate, People, Loving Your Enemies

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Civilization, Our World, World, Loving Your Enemies

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring, Love And Hate, Forgive Yourself

...love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can't stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they'll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That's love, you see. It is redemptive...

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Hate, Love You, Long, Loving Your Enemies, Love Your Enemies

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

- Anousheh Ansari

source: Source: scienceblog.com

topic: Believe, Space, Race, Loving Your Enemies

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Social Equality, Love And Hate

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Hate, Violence, Social Equality, Kings And Love, Police Brutality

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Hate, Cutting, Evil, Soul Force, Nazareth

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Love, War, Hate, Chain Reactions, Loving Your Enemies

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.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.65, Beacon Press

topic: Forgiveness, New Beginnings, Mean, Loving Your Enemies

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

- E. W. Howe

topic: Friendship, Enemy, Littles, Loving Your Enemies

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, July 16, 1910.

topic: Love, Funny, Life, Love Your Neighbor, Love Your Neighbor As Yourself

Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you

- Luke the Evangelist

topic: Hate, Love You, Enemy, Jesus Words, Turn The Other Cheek

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.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Hate, Love You, Creative, Loving Your Enemies, 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.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Peace, Our World, Civilization, Loving Your Enemies, Utopian

There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. [...] For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: "Loving Your Enemies". Speech delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

topic: Hate, Love You, Thinking, Loving Your Enemies, Love Your Enemies

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Evil, Moral, Cooperation, Moral Obligation, Loving Your Enemies

Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. 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.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Hate, Cutting, Men, Descending, Loving Your Enemies

Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies?

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.38, Beacon Press

topic: Enemy, Love Your Enemies, Practicals, Loving Your Enemies

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.64, Beacon Press

topic: Jesus, Realist, Idealist, Loving Your Enemies

Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Love, Expression, Surrender, Love Grows, Loving Your Enemies

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Struggle, Night, Media Violence, Generation Gap

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students”, p.24, Beacon Press

topic: Life, Love Is, Men, Loving Your Enemies

There may come a time when it will be possible for you to humiliate your worst enemy or even to defeat him, but in order to love the enemy you must not do it... The Greek language has another word [for love]. It calls it agape. Agape is more than romantic love. Agape is more than friendship. Agape is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men. Agape is an overflowing love, a spontaneous love, which seeks nothing in return. And theologians would say that it is the love of God operating in the human heart. When you rise to love on this level you love all men, not because you like them, not because their ways appeal to you, not because they are worthful to you, but you love all men because God loves them. And you rise to the noble heights of loving the person who does the evil deed while hating the deed that the person does. And I think this is what Jesus means when he says, “Love your enemies.”

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: "Loving Your Enemies". Sermon Delivered at the Detroit Council of Churches' Noon Lenten Services, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. March 07, 1961.

topic: Life, Jesus, Hate, Loving Your Enemies, Agape

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Hate, Violence, Destruction, Descending, Loving Your Enemies

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

topic: Inspirational, Jesus, Love You, Admonition, Loving Your Enemies

When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it at which point they can become human too.

- Bayard Rustin

topic: Inspirational Love, Children, Men, Loving Your Enemies

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.

- Robert Thurman

source: Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Thinking, Practice, Ideas, Loving Your Enemies

You take up energy towards someone because you think loving your enemy doesn't just mean caving into your enemy. It means first of all liberating yourself.

- Robert Thurman

source: Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Mean, Thinking, Loving You, Loving Your Enemies

Loving your enemy is a radical concept.

- Tavis Smiley

source: Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

topic: Loving You, Enemy, Radical, Loving Your Enemies

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.

- Albert Einstein

source: Letter to Michele Besso, January 6, 1948.

topic: Hate, Mean, Loving You, Loving Your Enemies, Spinoza

If one takes a public stand against, say, most any sin you can think of, one is considered "courageous" and a "defender of the faith." Folks will quickly applaud you and tell you how much they admire you for "taking a stand" on biblical truth. Except if you quote Matt. 5:44 and invite people to apply it in any sort of meaningful, literal way. The moment one begins to talk about loving your enemies they all of a sudden become "liberals," "extremists," or are accused of completely taking an otherwise straight forward passage "out of context.

- Benjamin L. Corey

topic: Meaningful, Peace, Biblical, Admire You, Biblical Truth