Love Your Enemies
Ye have heard that it hath been said,
Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies,
bless them that curse you,
do good to them that hate you,
and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
- Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 5:43-44)
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22
(Jesus on Anger and Revenge)
You have heard that it was said,
"Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth."
But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person.
If someone strikes you on the right cheek,
turn to him the other also.
- Matthew 5:38-39
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you,
do good to them that hate you, and pray for them
which despitefully use you and persecute you.
- Matthew 5:44
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
Then came Peter to him, and said,
Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me,
and I forgive him? till seven times?
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee,
Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
- Matthew 18:21-22
Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7
(Jesus on Love)
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies
and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
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I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
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Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Hatred freezes hearts, while love warms them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
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To love someone deeply gives you strength.
Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
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Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
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The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
Love ... waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
If you want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
- Madonna
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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