Sentences with phrase «of hating their enemies»

We find that what defines great leaders is that instead of hating their enemies, they feel a sort of pity and empathy for them.

When we Americans focus on radical Islamist terror, all too frequently our Muslim neighbors become part of the hated enemy by association.

Not exact matches

We hate most of Madison Street - inspired or Wall Street - pushed products because they are often enemies of your financial independence.

He has helped paint our enemies with a big brush of hate and successfully helped lots of Americans to open their eyes to see how ugly and stupid their neighbors are.

you are your own enemy, promote education, striving to be better and awareness instead of hate and.

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.

Therefore, it will have essential need of an enemy against whom it will build itself; it is by recognizing and hating its enemies that the political body will find its own common consciousness.»

Then we should have accepted them into the US instead of putting them in the middle of all their most hated enemies.

Jesus then went on to cherry - pick a text about how God sent Elijah only to widowed, Gentile women and leprous enemy soldiers (two of the people Jews hated most), to show that these are types of people God is inviting into His Kingdom.

Naturally, when you preach a sermon like this to a group of people who think God hates filthy Gentile women and leprous enemy soldiers, and that God's ultimate goal for such people is to kill them and send them to burn forever in hell, you will not be the most popular teacher that this particular audience has ever had.

As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets, Who have been since the world began, That we should be saved from our enemies And from the hand of all who hate us, To perform the mercy promised to our fathers And to remember His holy covenant, The oath which He swore to our father Abraham: To grant us that we, Being delivered from the hand of our enemies, Might serve Him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.

That realization will make it easier to ``... love your enemy, do good to those who hate you,» though it certainly must complicate life for members of the military.

Thus the Jews defeated all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, with slaughter and destruction, and did what they pleased with those who hated them.

On the day that the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, the opposite occurred, in that the Jews themselves overpowered those who hated them.

I'm ready to escape the relentless pursuit of hate and bitterness by praying for my enemies, blessing those who curse me, and turning the other cheek.

When Jeremiah bade the exiles in the city of Babylon «pray unto Yahweh for it; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace,» (Jeremiah 29:7) we see the dawning of a better day, whose full light, however, did not come before Christ — «Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you»; (Luke 6:27 - 28) «Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.»

The whole point of Jesus was to show the Jewish people that what the Pharisees were teaching about hating your enemy (the Romans and Samaritans at that time) was scripturally unsound.

For example, he rightly points out that Jesus says, «You have heard that it was said, «You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy»» (Matthew 5:38), but what he doesn't say is that there is a reason Jesus uses the expression, «that it was said» instead of his usual expression, «have you not read» or «as it is written» when he references scriptural passages.

It was the religious leaders who perverted the Law of God and taught people to «hate your enemy.»

Meir Soloveichik's insightful and intriguing article «The Virtue of Hate» highlights those scriptural heroes who rejoice in the Lord's vengeance upon their enemies, such as Samson, Deborah, and Esther.

In the eyes of Jesus, however, this view of light was not «of God»: «You have heard that it was said, «You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.»»

Avelino Gonzalez, using language that I had hoped had gone out of fashion among Catholic seminarians, opines that «nothing has changed in two thousand years,» and attempts to enlighten this Jewish author that «what the Pharisees were teaching about hating your enemy... was scripturally unsound.»

Adherents of the Christian faith may continue to love these enemies of the Divine, but as a Jew I believe that the bin Ladens of this world chose their path freely, and that, like David, we ought to «hate them with perfect hatred» — for they know well what they do.

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.»

ZecharYah has just before this said: YAHWEH has raised a horn of deliverance for us in the house of David, deliverance from our enemies and the hand that hates us.

There are not a lot of ways to interpret «If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar» or «Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;»

It does not say, «and hate your enemy,» though there are such protestations as «I hate the company of evildoers» (Ps 26:5) in the Psalms.

Is it a matter of a person simply deciding to stop hating his enemy?

They have hated the Lord's institutionalized enemies with a perfect hatred, while ignoring the need to have him search out the wickedness that originates in the rebelliousness of our own hearts.

You both hate America or non American hearted... in a multi national culture you can never know who is your enemy but who ever does that is a public enemy of American Unity... so should expect those sick hearted are not writing from the U.S...

That's the point; you can, and people have, used Christianity to justify just about everything, including capital punishment, abolishing capital punishment, the murder of abortion doctors, opposing all murder, endorsing state sponsored assassination of enemies of the nation, becoming rich, giving away all your property, marriage, celibacy, hating Jews, wanting to support Jews, and a bunch of other things.

«But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you... Love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.

Daleks are his enemies because they are filled with hate for anything other than themselves and want to assimilate all the wonder and unique vastness of the universe into one homogenous whole.

Online, there is less danger of actual violence (though threats of violence are depressingly common), but the mentality is the same: an enemy or victim has been identified and we egg each other on to more intense, more creative, more extreme expressions of communal anger and hate.

the true sign of Christians is to love his enemies, to do goo to them who hate you to bless all who curse you..

Maybe He does quote the texts and then say, «This is wrong,» but He pretty clearly says that instead of hating our hurting our enemies, we should love them and pray for them and bless them.

As for our enemies — the ones who hate us and persecute us — look at the context of Matt 5:44.

And from there it is another short step to «God allows all kinds of prayers» - for victory in battle, for the defeat of enemies, for the smashing of a corrupt political regime, for the removal of a hated social or economic system.

Instead, the present situation was much more accurately predicted by Huxley in Brave New World, which suggested that «in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face than from one whose countenance exudes suspicion and hate.

Because if grace is water, then the church should be an ocean It's not a museum for good people, it's a hospital for the broken Which means I don't have to hide my failure, I don't have to hide my sin Because it doesn't depend on me it depends on him See because when I was God's enemy and certainly not a fan He looked down and said I want, that, man Which is why Jesus hated religion, and for it he called them fools Don't you see so much better than just following some rules Now let me clarify, I love the church, I love the Bible, and yes I believe in sin But if Jesus came to your church would they actually let him in See remember he was called a glutton, and a drunkard by religious men But the Son of God never supports self righteousness not now, not then

When Christ utters the precepts: «Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you,» he gives for a reason: «That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.»

I don't exactly hate it, but is kinda weird that there are U.S. citizens who wax sentimental about past enemies of of the U.S.

You gave a lot of blather about seeing god and Jesus dying because he refused to hate his enemies.

It's been comforting for me to think of my enemies as God's enemies, and believe that God hates them.

«We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity.»

For both put love above hate; both would rather redeem than destroy their enemies; both see the difference between God's kingdom and the kingdoms of this world.

Obviously, while such methods of handling the passion of vindictiveness may be externally ameliorative, they are not inwardly curative, and they lend color to the words of Jesus, «Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.»

Barack Hussein Obama II (Who hates American Values) who is A» SELF PROCLAIMED Enemy» ~ of responsible, Morally Conscious HARD WORKING Americans.

One hates all who are different because it is the «Will of Allah» the other says love your enemies and pray for them that persecute you» Are we starting to see a pattern?

«You have heard that it was said, «Love your neighbor and hate your enemy,» Jesus says in a particularly annoying part of the Sermon on the Mount, «But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven.»