I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.---------------------------------------------------Gender-neutral version: I count one braver who overcomes one's desires than one who conquers one's...
We used to hate and destroy one another, and we refused to associate with people of another race or country. Now, because of Christ, we live together with such people, and we pray for our enemies.
Christian faith would be so much healthier if we didn't see our faith as a war to be won or people as enemies but as worlds to be explored and people to be loved.
For God so loved the world that God made us for love. For God so loved the world that God incarnated love itself in the person of Jesus.For God so loved the world that God empowered us to love even our enemies, even the worst person on Twitter, even those who seem...
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....
When the Bible describes the word of God as "sharper than a two-edged sword," perhaps we should envision this probing and incisive word of truth more as a surgical scalpel or a gamma knife capable of going after our deepest sin, rather than using the Bible as a dagger...
Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not about patting one another on the back and turning a blind eye to the wrong. True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse,...
If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
The scriptural telling begins with how tragically flawed we are by our self-centeredness – Adam blaming Eve, Cain bashing Abel – and how slow we are to realize it – Samson with Delilah, David with Bathsheba.... But one day a man named Jesus appeared out of nowhere who...
It's not just hating war, despising war, sitting back and waiting for war to end. It's not just loving peace, wanting peace, sitting back and waiting for peace to come. Peace plans its strategy and encircles the enemy. Peace marshals its forces and storms the gates....