Gary North Quotes

Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer.

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.

The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we must approach Him with a humble and contrite heart.

When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power.

Die fearlessly at the hands of your neighbors without fighting back to shame Muslims by your moral example..

Sanctions are a very un-Christian weapon.

Christians never shall employ the sword to protect property, character, liberty or life. Let the heathen rule us.

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.

Real Christians will abstain from violating the rights of others, and therefore will not provoke war.

He who turns the other cheek will get hit with the other fist.

It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.

I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the strongest. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.

If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse.

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

Let us be peaceable as near as we can: let us relent of our own right: let us not strive for these worldly goods, honour and reputation: let us bear all wrongs and outrages, rather than be moved to any debate through our own fault. But in the meanwhile, let us fight for God's truth with tooth and nail.

I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'

Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind.

A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.

If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.

The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.

The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence.

This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.