Sentences with phrase «loving enemies»

Loving our enemies and returning evil with good has the power to accomplish things that the weapons of war can never dream of.

The same idea is paralled in Luke 6:32 - 35 where the emphasis is on loving our enemies and those who can not return the favor.

Speaking in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1957, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered one of his greatest sermons, titled «Loving Your Enemies.»

And if you take Jesus words in the sermon of the mount about giving the other cheek and going the extra mile, loving your enemies and so on, he is defining what upholding the words of the law meant for him.

Loving your enemies does not mean that you let them take advantage of other people and even kill them.

I forget who wrote it but possible John Owen or Oswald Chambers said, and I para-phrase, «If you have no trouble loving your enemies, you have never had an enemy!

I'm not sure it's possible to be a healthy, well - adjusted person and go around loving your enemies and giving without expecting anything in return and turning the other cheek.

So no loving your enemies and forgiving them?

Loving our enemies and blessing those who spitefully use us is a supernatural work.

But when we start loving our enemies, and doing good to those who hate us, and giving to those who want to steal from us, then the eyebrows pop up, the mouth hangs open and the whispers start spreading.

In the rest of the paragraph in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus gives a reason for loving enemies and persecutors (Mt 5:45 - 46): «so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

We are not to suppose that we are capable in this world of loving our enemies (or even our neighbours), to the full measure in which God has loved us; or of being as completely disinterested and single - minded, as pure of worldly desire and anxiety, and as unreserved in self - sacrifice, as the words of Jesus demand; and yet these are the standards by which all our actions are judged.

That being said if you only «love» your enemies to heap coals of fire on their heads you are not loving your enemies and are indeed heaping coals upon your own head.

he did speak of «turning the other cheek, loving your enemies, he did admonish his disciple peter for using a sword on him, he did allow himself to be killed, he did chose to forigve»... i'm just now seeing anywhere in the NT where followers of christ are called to kill??? please show me... please show me in the the ten commandments where it instructs on killing... oh, it does say not to murder

It can be something as benign as passing judgment, not loving their enemies, etc..

I am a big fan of the whole loving your enemies and turning the other cheek thing.

Kauffman pointed out that «Jesus talks about loving our enemies and praying for our enemies and doing good to those who do evil to us»; more than this, on the cross «Jesus allowed himself to die, and absorbed in his own being the violence around him, rather than countering that violence.»

In the reign of God our strong identity must come from loving our enemies.

The event of «loving enemies» is also the moment of seeing «the resurrection of the just.»

I explained that this seemed contrary to what Jesus taught about loving our enemies.

Part of why I think Jesus talks so explicitly about loving our enemies and turning the other cheek is because it isn't our knee - jerk reaction; it doesn't necessarily come naturally to us.

His obedience in humbling himself, in loving his enemies, caring for the poor, welcoming the marginalized, and turning away from violence made a mockery of this opulent, bloodthirsty, and oppressive Empire.

Why bother loving your enemies, that's the quickest way to be taken advantage of!

With carefully chosen words and images charged with first - century political meaning, he constantly reminded his followers that they were to be a set - apart people, a people who lived counter-culturally by loving their enemies, praying for those who persecuted them, lending without expecting anything in return, and surrendering allegiance to a crucified and risen Lord.

It is about loving our neighbors, loving our enemies, loving each other.

What's wrong with the church when folks like Shane Claiborne who have reputations for loving their enemies, giving without expecting anything in return, and withholding judgment can't get speaking gigs because of their «questionable» theological positions?

Only by loving our enemies and praying for them do we act as children of God.

The Bible speaks of the reconciliation of the wicked to God, and of loving your enemies (that is, people you consider wicked) but precisely that aspect of God's work is excluded here.

If Jesus embodies God's dreams for the world, then citizens of the Kingdom start by imitating him — by eating with the people he ate with, by telling the sort of stories he told, by healing and forgiving, by serving and praying, by resisting the temptations of power and money and violence, by breaking down religious barriers, by loving enemies, by showing humility and grace, by overturning some tables and dining at others, by being obedient to the point of death.

In the Church, we talk about loving our enemies.

In essence, he says, «If you are to follow me as King of this newly inaugurated Kingdom of God, you will need to start loving your enemies as much as yourself.

Christ asked simply that we do unto others what we would have them do unto us - «You have heard it said that you should love your friends and hate your enemies, but I say to you, love your enemies; bless them who curse you; for He makes his sun rise on both the evil and on the good, and sends his rain on the just and the unjust.»

Of course, because xtians are supposed to love their enemys right?

In context the theme is the same yet those older cultures could not have understood love your enemy or slave.

In the same manner Christ said love your neighbor and love your enemy.

Thank God that Jesus taught us to love our enemies because Muslims, especially extremist are definitely that.

The teachings of Christ are crystal clear — that we must love our enemies, bless those who persecute us, pray for those who hate us — and not that they receive condemnation, but that their hearts may be turned to ways of true justice, love, and peace.

Jesus calls us to love our enemies and hangout with the lowest and most unloved members of society.

Buddhist monk TN Hahn says «love your enemies» is the greatest phrase ever uttered, the ultimate koan.

Then again, we all follow a Saviour who said to love our enemies, so maybe you're on to something.

Jesus and Muhammed had opposite doctrines Jesus said «Love your enemies, and bless those who curse you» Muhammed said» Kill them where you find them» Muhammed was a warrior who shed much blood, a fact of which many Muslims are proud.

My Savior wants me to live by example, and to love thy enemy.

Indeed, He told Peter to put his sword away (29) and that Christians should love their enemies.

Why does god tell us to love our enemies but he tortures his for eternity in his own private torture chamber?

God tortures his enemies forever in a pit of fire even though he tells us to love our enemies.

The number one rule given by your prophet was to love your neighbors as you love yourself, so by leading in example he would love his enemies.

See unlike your master, my Master teaches me to love my enemies not hate them.

Now, if christianity actually practiced what it preached, there would be little problem... love your enemy as you love yourselves, but christians can't do that... «believe what i believe or you're going to hell».

For example, it would seem to cause a lot of problems if the «eye for an eye» time dispensation was confused for the «love they enemy» time dispensation, would it not?

A nation is not commanded to love its enemies.