Tavis Smiley Quotes

The most revolutionary statement in history is "Love thine enemy

So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.

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

Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

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

The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.

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.

There is a power in love that our world has not discovered yet. Jesus discovered it centuries ago. Mahatma Gandhi of India discovered it a few years ago, but most men and most women never discover it. For they believe in hitting for hitting; they believe in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth; they believe in hating for hating; but Jesus comes to us and says, 'This isn't the way.'

It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5)

Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.

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

A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.

It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.

If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.

I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that.

Reject hatred without hating.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

We must follow nonviolence and love.

Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.

Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.

Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.

We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.

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