All alike must carry arms and go to war. All have by nature a heart full of pride, unbelief, sloth, worldliness, and sin. All are living in a world beset with snares, traps, and pitfalls for the soul. All have near them a busy, restless, malicious devil.

It costs something to be a real Christian, according to the standard of the Bible. There are enemies to be overcome, battles to be fought, sacrifices to be made, an Egypt to be forsaken, a wilderness to be passed through, a cross to be carried, a race to be run. Conversion is not putting a person in an arm-chair and taking them easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws

The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies

Of all the enemies of public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

In Jesus and for Him, enemies and friends alike are to be loved.

Got new money, got new problems, got new enemies. When you make it to the top, it’s the amenities.

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity

At the core of hostility to Semitism lies Moses. He made a disastrous blunder, a horrible mix-up, and all enemies of Semitism for a long time originated from his misjudgment. Moses said we Jews could stay a people without having a land. He said we needn’t bother with an area to clutch our Jewish character. This was a disaster

It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes

Go on and finish your studies,” Gore said. “You are poor enough, but there are greater evils than poverty. Live on no man’s favor. What bread you do eat, let it be the bread of independence. Pursue your profession. Make yourself useful to your friends and a little formidable to your enemies, and you have nothing to fear.

Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within

When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection

It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say “we” with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke “others” and regard himself as their interpreter – for me to consider him my enemy.

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

We must forgive our enemies.

We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them.

Never explain? Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The best men are always first discovered by their enemies: it is the adversary who turns on the searchlight, and the proof of excellence lies in being able to stand the gleam.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

You never so touch the ocean of God’s love as when you forgive and love your enemies.

The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.

My dad raised me with some good advice: ‘Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you’ll never have enemies, because people will always know where you’re coming from.’

If you have enemies, good that means you stood up for something.

Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

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

It’s a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.

I defeat my enemies when I make them my friends.

Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

The enemy is as ignorant of the situation as we are.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.

Since it is so likely that [children] will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

The jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.

Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.

The enemies are not so much from without as from within the race.

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies

The chief enemies in China’s revolutionary war are imperialism and the feudal forces.

Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.

We shall support whatever our enemies oppose and oppose whatever our enemies support.

What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!

Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he who overcomes them by force.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Having strong enemies is a blessing

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend

You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.

Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

Love your enemies for they tell you your faults.

When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war

United you will be more than a match for your enemies. But if you quarrel and separate, your weakness will put you at the mercy of those who attack you

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle’s own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction

Do not let your enemies see your methods, do not let them guess your plans

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

One night, I prayed to God. I asked could he please remove my enemies from my life, and before you knew it I started losing friends.

It is possible to love someone dear to you with human love, but an enemy can only be loved by divine love.

A man that is friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.

Anger is your worst enemy in life.

People quickly grow accustomed to the incredible if they are exposed to it on a daily basis.

The future is a gray enemy who takes away all mystery and replaces it with boredom, the future is our ultimate disappointment.

The ultimate form of disrespect is to dismiss someone’s worth and value.

Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn’t.

A shark? No, I like to think I’m more like a panther. A shark attacks from behind without you knowing. With a panther, you know it’s coming but he still gets you.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

We can’t never let em break our mind, we gotta stay strong conquer an don’t divide.

I give all my problems to God. Let him handle all my enemies