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That I feed the beggar, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ, all these are undoubtedly great virtues. What I do unto the least o’ my brethren, that I do unto Christ. But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yeah, the very fiend himself, that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved. What then? Then, as a rule, the whole truth of Christianity is reversed: there is then no more talk of love and long-suffering; we say to the brother within us “Raca,” and condemn and rage against ourselves. We hide him from the world, we deny ever having met this least among the lowly in ourselves, and had it been God himself who drew near to us in this despicable form, we should have denied him a thousand times before a single cock had crowed.

The Aramaic word for “forgive” means literally to “untie.” Hatred and anger had bound me to my pain. The fastest way to free the self from an enemy and all associated negativity is to forgive. Untie those bindings; free yourself from that person’s ugliness.

The best gift that we can give to our enemy is not war, but forgiveness and peace.

That's the first rule of survival in enemy waters: volunteer nothing.

The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to turn him into a friend.

The bullshit detector is the biggest enemy of every religion." From: "Gesels van een imaginaire god" ('Scourges of an imaginary god')

The corporate controlled government is the real enemy.

The devil may not be interested in preventing you from knowing the undone job. What he may do is to make you think it’s somebody’s job and not yours.

The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview

The best way to hurt someone who hates you is to love them or someone they hate; the second best is to refuse to hate them back; and the third best is to learn from their mistakes.

The enemy is always outside the self, the struggle somewhere else.

The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.

The enemy of my enemy may be my friend … of course the friend of my friend is often a jerk.

The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.

The enemy stays in the hearts of friends. Watch what your friends know about you and watch what you tell your friends, remember, egoism breeds jealousy and ends a relationship in discord.

The enemy is not as powerful as your attitude towards GOD.

The Enemy makes better use of our intelligence than of our errors.

The good enemy accompanies you on the journey, but you will never reach your destination with him.

The enemy of my enemy is also my enemy. A dark lord has no friends.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend ... even if it's a monster.

The greater the fruit a trees bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it.

The first and most enemy that we have are ourselves.

The freedom to choose is the friend of natural happiness but enemy of synthetic happiness. The best way to create synthetic happiness is, therefore, to restrict your options to as few as you can. Synthetic happiness acts like our psychological immune system and helps us be happy even in adverse situations. We change our views of the world, so we can feel better about the world we find ourselves in. It works best when we’re totally stuck, when we are trapped.

The greater the man the greater his enemies.

The greatest friends we make are those who were once our greatest enemies.

The greatest enemy you will ever fight is yourself.

The higher you rise, the smaller your enemies.

The greatest enemy of development is denial.

The larger the bricks your enemies throw at you the larger the palace you are going to build.

The more you run away from the devil, the more you will realize that it is closer to you than before. Don't run away from it; RESIST the devil and it will FLEE from you!

The most dangerous enemy is the one who can easily make friends with his potential victims!

The most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears.

The Greatest Enemy of Confidence is Inexperience

The irony about friendship is, you are only 2 words away from your best friend becoming your worst enemy.

The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend.

The most powerful force that can transform an enemy into a friend is simple kindness.

The number of things we do not like about someone skyrockets as soon as we find out that they do not like us.

The octopuses seemed to be neither friends nor enemies, but in a state of complicated coexistence.

The only care a soldier must have in war is to let the fleeting advantage of the enemy take the confidence of his inner field.

The pain of what happened next lives in our collective memory. It mauls our souls each day. Yet it must be told. Silence guarantees no healing. It promises that the child's life would be forgotten and that its mission might, one day, be thought significant. Silence is the enemy of history, and history is all we have.

The political is the most intense and extreme antagonism, and every concrete antagonism becomes that much more political the closer it approaches the most extreme point, that of the friend-enemy grouping.

Then he was sorry for the great fish... How many people will he feed?.. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course, not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity.

The problem with 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend,' is that once the common enemy is gone, you usually end up fighting each other.

There are no intermediaries when it comes to matters of change. Anyone who is not for change is against it. Anyone who is against change is an enemy of nature!

There are 2 kinds of fighters: those who fight because they hate, and those who fight because they love.

There are no such enemies So dire as good people, They will rob you, mournfully, And condemn you, weeping, They'll invite you to their home, Welcome you profusely, Ask you all about yourself, To mock and abuse you, Later, mock at you and jeer, To grab you for sure... Without enemies on earth Somehow one can endure. But those good people yet will Everywhere beset you, Even in the other world They will not forget you.

There is a 100% assurance that what your friend’s enemy tells you about your friend is false. What your failure tells you about your passion is fake. Don’t give up!

There is a fine line between radiation being your best friend or your worst enemy.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.