Sentences with phrase «n't turn the other cheek»

Do you feel happy now, Sheila, since you didn't turn the other cheek as Jeebus told you to do?

When this happened, Jesus did not turn the other cheek.

old lady did NOT turn the other cheek.

This is not fair... Turkies can't turn the other cheek.

The whole history of constitutional government is a commentary on the excellence of resisting evil, and when one cheek is smitten, of smiting back and not turning the other cheek also.

Legally speaking, Ross M. Cellino Jr. did not turn the other cheek, filing court papers accusing his estranged law partner Stephen E. Barnes of being a «bully» and creating a «toxic environment» in the Cellino & Barnes law firm that Cellino now wants dissolved.

The decision was a slap in the face to Calvary, which prided itself on educating kids in religious and secular knowledge, but the school didn't turn the other cheek.

She immediately felt bad for not turning the other cheek and responding with kindness the way she was taught — but dang it, that whiny Tiphany Rae had stomped on her last nerve.

Not exact matches

Jesus turned the other cheek, but it seems that Christians in America aren't too fond of doing so.

I'm pretty sure your Christ said to turn the other cheek, not turn around and kill everyone even remotely similar to the guy who wronged you.

If the Bible is outdated, then many Christians will cease to turn the other cheek to people like you, and we would not give lying, cheating, etc a second thought before we do these things.

Apparently you do not know why Jesus said «turn the other cheek.»

The moment that I set myself up as the «victim» of «journalism shaming,» not only do I take something away from people who have truly been victimized, but I add to the momentum of false victimhood culture while ignoring the words of Jesus about turning the other cheek.

I feel like a lightweight in the heavyweight division; this statement is not driven by a need to appear humble or to «earn points» with God or those longsuffering Christians still reading this thread by turning the other cheek and being meek.

I notice though that while her religion doesn't celebrate holidays, it seems to not mind suing people despite Christains are supposed to just turn the other cheek and not fight back.

Turn the other cheek isn't going to help when a criminal refuses to go to jail for a crime and becomes violent.

The greatest love known is to give (or risk) your life for a friend - Jesus didn't say that the greatest love known is to «turn the other cheek and forsake a friend» - you recieved sacrifical love from a complete stranger and willfully chose to withhold your sacrificial love in return.

I refused even though my mom told me protect myself, because I had learned in church, that Jesus my lord and savior said not to, that we should turn the other cheek.

Don't forget the turn the other cheek shtick, you fail at that so often.

Jesus could have left the moneychanges alone and prayed for them in the Temple, but instead he whipped them, turned over their tables (not his other cheek), and then chased them away.

Consider Joel, what «The Bible» really says about «an eye for an eye»: Mat 5:38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: Mat 5:39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Did not Jesus urge us to turn the other cheek rather than picket, to refuse to «resist one who is evil» rather than boycott unjust companies?

You «do» realize that Christians practice the New Testament: «love your neighbor as yourself», «turn the other cheek», «judge not and ye shall not be judged».

Others point to Jesus» submission to the ruling authorities, and injunctions to turn the other cheek, not to judge nor be angry.

As a non-believer in any personal god I am not compelled to turn the other cheek, but give back as much or more dissing as I get and often do it first, why wait?

It's not easy to turn the other cheek when cruelly insulted.

Jesus spent all of his ministry teaching you to treat your neighbor in the same way that you would want to be treated; invited you to take notice of the plank in your eye, not to cast the first stione, to turn the other cheek.

Turning the other cheek is not an invitation for abused people to stay with their tormentor.

In the same vein, we rightly tell women they should not simply turn the other cheek when a man sexually assaults them.

But I say to you, do not resist an evil person; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.

It is the higher reasoning nature that he asked you to utilize, not your primitive impulsive nature: again, turning the other cheek, etc, all of which requires the use of your higher reasoning abilities.

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.

But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Of course I also agree with ex-NY Mayor Koch who stated something like, I don't believe in turning the other cheek, I give back as much as I get.

In imitating God and His virtues, Rabbi Cordevero believes that humanity should desire to sustain love and «turn the other cheek» even to those «who do not deserve it at all.»

Reinhold Niebuhr lamented that hesitation, contending that sometimes justice takes precedence over love, It is not always right to turn the other cheek.

Thus, in 1975 when Dr. Robb (then president of the «Good News» movement) leveled a blast at all the United Methodist seminaries, claiming that in none of them could an evangelical student hope for a decent exposure to the Wesleyan heritage, there were not many of us in an other - cheek - turning mood.

Jesus» commands are pretty clear — turn the other cheek, love enemies and forgive them, don't take revenge, etc, so it would seem that refusing to fight or support in any way might be the thing christians should do, unless the war is clearly justified.

But don't pretend that he wanted his followers to turn the other cheek.

Jesus didn't teach on changing the world by taking over the government; He taught on changing the world by showing radical, sacrificial, merciful love (turning the other cheek, going the extra mile, giving everything we have to the poor and following Him and His ways).

If he says something when you go home, you can turn the other cheek and not reply.

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

Jesus said turn the other cheek, let the wheat grow up with the tares so as not to accidently uproot anyone, Love your enemy etc..

Some of the most widely quoted sayings in the Sermon on the Mount, and the ones most consistently violated, are the commands (Mt 5:38 - 42) to turn the other cheek, to give the cloak when deprived of the coat, to go two miles when compelled to go one, to refuse no request for a gift or a loan, to offer no resistance to an evil man, as recent translations read where the KJV says «resist not evil.»

When Jesus really had an opportunity to turn the other cheek, He didn't do it.

Turning the other cheek means that when you are severely insulted, don't trade insults.

Why not fight the urge for revenge ourselves by turning the other cheek and stop it, there and then with us.

If YOUR God can't cause you to... what the hell... turn the other cheek, let your yes be yes and your no be no, etc..

Jesus asked each of us to think for himself, to go into a closet and pray, to turn the other cheek, to not cast the first stone, etc..

While there are difficult verses (such as «eye for eye, tooth for tooth» and «turn the other cheek»), in context, they do not contradict (with that case, Moses was setting up punishment in court, while Jesus was telling how individuals should live).