Enemy Quotes - Page 59

The story of the gospel is so much better than the legal model suggests. It tells us that we are created as God's partners, not God's enemies. Sin does a lot of damage to that partnership - it disables us, it discourages us, it disturbs us - but it never destroys the bond that exists between God and humanity.

The more the Gospel progresses and the closer we come to the end of the age, the more aggressive the enemy becomes. Sadly, many Christians are unaware that a battle is raging all around them, and they have not reported for duty.

One of the best sources of perspective is enemies. If we can learn from them, then we can profit from anyone.

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.

Money is just a piece of paper. Money burns. You know what I mean? Money is nothing substantial to me. You know what I mean? It's the enemy of music.

Settling for what is comfortable is one of the biggest enemies to our enlargement... In every season of life...we need to be committed to enlarging our personal capacity (even when it's not comfortable). We need to refuse to be satisfied with our latest accomplishments, as what we've accomplished is no longer our potential because it has been realized.

This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against a phantom. The jihad we have embarked upon is targeting an elusive and protean enemy. The battle we have begun is never-ending. But it may be too late to wind back the heady rhetoric. We have embarked on a campaign as quixotic as the one mounted to destroy us.

Be friends with everybody. When you have friends you will know there is somebody who will stand by you. You know the old saying, that if you have a single enemy you will find him everywhere. It doesn't pay to make enemies. Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to every one about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.

To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.

New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form.

The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

I never cling on to hope or certainty. They're the enemies of peace.

The sky breaks. It sags and breathes upon my face. in the presence of mine enemies, mine enemies The world is full of enemies. There is no safe place.

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities, and to see the profits of our trade snatched from us, to enrich our enemies and persecutors. That unequalled spirit of enterprise . . . an inexhaustible mine of national wealth, would be stifled and lost; and poverty and disgrace would overspread a country, which, with wisdom, might make herself the admiration and envy of the world.

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

The sword of Mahomet, and the Coran, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and Truth, which the world has yet known.

Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.

Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.

Ignorance fears diversity as an invading enemy, while wisdom welcomes diversity in an alliance of friendship.

Self-mastery is the challenge of transforming yourself from own worst enemy into your greatest ally.

Many of my personal enemies picture me as a cold type - a person who acts according to a certain line, a calculating type.

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?