Enemy Quotes - Page 62

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you're in bad shape.

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.

Our Lord Christ Himself strikes down our enemies through us, or in company with us. For he who eats Christ's flesh and drinks His blood abides with Christ and He in him. Therefore, when we overcome the enemies, it is the blood of Christ which overcomes, as it is written in Revelation: 'and they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb'

Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies

Forgive your enemies, but first get even.

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.

Try never to speak of your enemies by name. Any publicity is still publicity - and there are those for whom your disapproval constitutes a recommendation.

The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.

There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship towards himself is a public enemy, and he who finds no confidant within himself will die of despair. For life streams out of man's inner self and in no way from what surrounds him.

Bad habits are our enemies because they hinder us from being the person we want to be.

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.

We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.

It's always better to feed your enemies than to fight with them.

'They straightway left their nets and followed Him' (Mt. 4:20). The Apostles did not grudge leaving their nets for the Lord's sake, although they were perhaps their only property, and precious to them because they lived by them; and we, likewise, for the Lord's sake, ought to leave everything that hinders our following Him ? that is, all the many and various nets in which the enemy entangles us in life.

When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.

In faith, I'm a believer in the do's - you know, love your neighbor, love your enemy. I don't spend a lot of time thinking on the don'ts 'cause I can't get the do's right.

A proud monk needs no demon. He has turned into one, an enemy to himself.

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

Yes, the investor is often his own worst enemy. Yes, the marketing colossus known as the mutual fund industry provides the weaponry which enables investors to indulge their suicidal instincts. No, the fund industry was hardly an innocent bystander in the market boom and the subsequent carnage. "We have met the enemy and he is us"... all of us.

An inner life and inner enemies to conquer, battle and destroy. These enemies are the various desires that seek to distract our concentration by causing our thoughts to cling to outward things, things that will pass away.

Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.

Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging.

.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.