Julie Garwood Quotes

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed the deeds of men.

Let not the hatred of others make you avoid justice.

We can scarcely hate any one that we know.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

It's not good to be a hater.

There is no forgiveness, justice, or healing on any level when hate is involved.

We are not supposed to hate anyone, yet almost everyone hates somebody at some time or other, whether he admits it to himself or not.

It's much easier to be at peace than it is to hate somebody. It's much easier to love somebody than to fight with them.

It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.

You hate evil, but you don't hate the people that do evil. So, hate has to go out the window.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

To understand everything is to hate nothing.

We can never truly understand the people we hate; we can never truly hate the people we understand.

I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.

Throughout our history, there has been a long list of those we've been conditioned to hate. The British, French, Spanish, Germans, Japanese, Russians, Communists, Northern Koreans, Vietnamese, Iranians, Taliban, and both northerners and southerners in America are some of the people we've been encouraged at various times to call enemies and to hate. The list is long, and as time passes, those we were assigned to hate we later were told should be removed from our hate list. The enemy is obviously hatred itself. Have empathy for your assigned enemy.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.