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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
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
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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
(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
(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
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
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
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
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love them as they are,
and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Love is not a matter of counting the years,
but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Justice that love gives is a surrender,
justice that law gives is a punishment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Love is stronger than justice.
- Sting
Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The right mixture of caring and not caring -
I suppose that's what love is.
- James Hilton
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
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