Patricia Briggs Quotes

When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.

He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.

Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies?

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.

My faith tradition is love your enemies. It's not complicated for me, if I aspire to be who I say I am. I am a Christian American. Literally written in the ideals of my faith is to love those who hate you. I don't see why that's so shocking.

Jesus condemned no one except hypocrites.

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me leniently, or rather not at all, since He says: "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.

The most revolutionary statement in history is "Love thine enemy

If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God's mercy.

Forgiveness should go hand-in-hand with love.

Are you angry with someone? Pray for that person. That is what Christian love is.

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

We all need grace in the face of each other.

Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity.

I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.

I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.

When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.

I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple. Jesus didn't go around condemning people.