Such an interesting article Dora and so thought provoking. This was a wonderful reminder to me to cherish a bit more deeply. I have friends of over 55 years, but I cannot remember an enemy lasting for more than a few days. No doubt about it reading these, that you are my friend. It is so easy to call one circumstance a friend and the same an enemy. One would have to work very hard, me thinks, to gain an enemy. I love quotes, as you know, so this was an instant like for me. How would we know the difference if we didn't have both? Sorry about your back-stabber friend? Hope the friendship could heal and survive.īill Holland from Olympia, WA on June 30, 2020: Rosina, I'm glad that you like the quotes.
No, the friendship ended rapidly! Too horrible to save. It is harder for me to stand up to my friends. Yesterday, I almost made a friend an enemy. Mary Norton from Ontario, Canada on June 30, 2020: What a lovely thing to say! I'm very pleased to know you too. Also, I must say you really did a good job of research to get these diverse sources of quotes.Īnn Carr from SW England on June 30, 2020: As such, the quotes by Martin Luther King Jr, (#10) Sidney Sheldon, (#25) and especially Aristotle, (#12) speak the loudest to me. I've come to understand that enemies are a necessary and unavoidable fact of life.
James C Moore from Joliet, IL on June 30, 2020: Ms Dora, this was a very interesting article. I think I probably did have enemies when I was young but as I aged I probably became more careful about my words and actions. These quotes were wonderful and sure make you think about your own beliefs. Pamela Oglesby from Sunny Florida on June 30, 2020: I liked many of them, including the ones from Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
Many of these quotes were thought-provoking. Peggy Woods from Houston, Texas on June 30, 2020: Where then is the enemy? I have none.Īs I said, you have presented your case well. Will I always be successful? If Christ wasn't, then why will I? The servant is not greater than his Master. My Heart likes to run forward to Love, to attempt to nullify, with God's grace, all that has not been touched by the Light Divine. How can we not be fearful or insecure, if we know that we have an enemy out there? How then can we exercise the purity of the Heart that Jesus asks us to? Men may say one thing, but the Heart may speak another. The 'state' is an enemy of Love but the individual is still made in God's image. spiritual practices to transform negative states. "But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which spitefully use you, and persecute you." - (Mathew 5:44)
This is how Jesus the Christ asks us to deal with it: So we need to be prepared in Love for the resentments or hatred that may come our way. There are people who don't or may not like us. We have discussed it before, like we have fear and reverential fear. Well, what can I say? You argue your case well. The possibility that we can sometimes be the enemy is not a popular notion, so thank you for highlighting that. Glad that you did not succeed in making your friend an enemy. Mary, I'm smiling at the thought of standing up to our friends. That's why I love to research and share quotes. So many writers and speakers express what we have to say better than we can. Dora Weithers (author) from The Caribbean on June 30, 2020:
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