Sentences with phrase «said about our enemies»

The thing that Longfellow said about our enemies is equally applicable to the alcoholic: «If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.»

Not exact matches

«I'm a real believer in being clear on who your monster is, who the enemy is, really helps with briefs and communication,» said Nowlan, who joined Tim Hortons about a year ago after six years at Molson Coors Canada and before that Kraft Foods Group.

Even the enemies and the haters admit that,» Trump said about the special counsel investigation.

Working with Rogers could also be the least antagonistic way of Videotron joining the wireless club — while its Ontario - based rival may begrudgingly give up some of its market, there is the old saying about keeping your enemies closer.

Sarah O'Rourke, Autodesk's youth audience strategist, says that these young inventors understand what so many adults forget about innovation — not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Certainly not much is said about defending the land from God's enemies as the Hebrews, for all their military might in killing women and children, always seem to get their asses handed to them when a professional army of men invades.

Don't play into the hands of the enemy: Arguing about Tim Farron's views on homosexuality doesn't help anyone, says Ruth Smith More

I'd say uneducated, unsuccessful bitter racist white - trash fundamentalists (who are all about as sharp as a marble) are always the ones drawn to the KKK, John Birch, and fundamentalist «churches»... they're easy to amp up with hatred of a common enemy... which is what you see «churches» like Westboro Blabtist do... just look at the combination of zeal and hatred in their faces when they're on the news.

Your invective throughout and acknowledgement of «enemies» says a lot about who you are.

To put it more bluntly, He is saying, «When you talk about your enemies, keep your mouth shut unless you're going to bless them.»

The Golden Rule, which Matthew gives here, is placed by Luke with the sayings about nonresistance and love for enemies (Mt 7:12; Lk 6:31).

«His work in philosophy forms part, and a very important part, of the movement of twentieth - century realism; but whereas the other leaders of that movement came to it after a training in late - nineteenth - century idealism, and are consequently realistic with the fanaticism of converts and morbidly terrified of relapsing into the sins of their youth, a fact which gives their work an air of strain, as if they cared less about advancing philosophical knowledge than about proving themselves good enemies of idealism, Whitehead's work is perfectly free from all this sort of thing, and he suffers from no obsessions; obviously he does not care what he says, so long as it is true.

Christians, compelled by the love of Christ, must not only be the best kind of friends; we must also become the best kind of enemies — forgiving when injured, praying for and blessing those who speak against and ridicule and say untrue things about us, and refusing to get caught up in a culture of outrage.

Do you have an enemy who says only bad things and negative things about you?

The quickest and greatest way to make them a bigger enemy is to open your mouth and say negative things about them.

The way we have reacted to the death of our enemy says something about us; we must remember that when we have an enemy we make ourselves into an enemy as well, and we were horrified when our enemies celebrated in the streets because of 9/11 and yet now we are behaving the same way.

that He had defeated death or satan, this crucifixion was a promise that He had to make perfectly clear to His enemy 1st before He could say to the world ALL those who were created in his image, that its done it is finished I did what I said I would do, if you decide you need me, I will be waiting, man talk about patience, and this isnt the kind of patience that your see when people are waiting in line and they arent tapping thier foot, this is called perfect Faith, that comes in trusting and know the end from the beginning, thats HUGE!

Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld says that when people hear about the downfall of an enemy, rabbis often remind them of a verse from Proverbs: «Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles.»

If we have something to say about the timeless enemies of the human condition — injustice, ignorance, bigotry, exploitation, hunger, war — we will fail if we try to sound like every other voice in the public realm instead of using our language and tradition.

Let us be specific about what it means to say we live in that history which is determined by the reign of Christ in conflict with his enemies.

Jack you cant sell what you do nt have satan already had us under his control through our sinful nature once we give our lives to Christ we are Christs and then are protected from the enemy he also empowers us so we walk according to our new nature so we wont be influenced by satan.That is why we must be born again.You need to be saved by believing in Jesus Christ that he was the son of God and died for our sin then you wont be worried about what you think you have done or might do once you believe in him there is no doubt that you are forgiven and saved through the blood of Jesus.jOHN 3:16 say that if we believe in Jesus Christ Gods son we shall have eternal life.brentnz

Well I think when Jesus said love your enemies, he was not talking about a teaching that he himself would have needed to practice, cause like the buddhist (or whoever) say, the boat (teaching) is used to cross the water, but once it has done it's job you leave it at the shore, you do nt drag it with you else it will just weigh you down.

If a person believes that God is not violent and loves His enemies (like Jesus) then Jesus» statement in Luke 12:4 - 5 will make us stop and say, «Who is Jesus talking about?

His words about loving enemies are nice in theory, we say, but surely he knew they were impossible for us.

Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz

Jesus said to «love your enemies» but what would Rush Limbaugh comment about this?

people like you who can't mind their own business and seek to deny any group of americans their constitutionally guaranteed equality THE SAME EQUALITY EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO — then get all pissy about fags while displaying — what i've got to say appears some really unhealthy denial and latency issues... is definitely the enemy of reason.

Why do we wish to be huffing and puffing about that hypocrisy when the other one, the hypocrisy of saying that Al Qaeda is our enemy, a terrorist organization, while we will support their «freedom fighters» in Syria or Egypt.

Whatever the reality, what you said is true about Jesus, love and enemies.

Despite what the prince in Dostoevsky's Idiot says about the crucified Christ constituting a sight that could cause one to lose faith, it is precisely upon the Pierced One that the believer must gaze — for in contemplating the length and breadth and depth of a God whose love recoils not from his enemies (nor even from death), even the least faithful believer is offered the greatest proof of the reliability of the Word into which they entrusted their destiny.

The Jesus I read about in the Gospels says «Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,» not «Because you have not let my people go, I will go through all of Egypt and strike down every firstborn son.»

He said I had an obligation to fight for my country, and when I asked him about the verses in the bible about loving your enemies, he said that although this is true, you still need to basically kill them.

The Spurs boss was obviously happy about beating their «sworn enemy» but he says that he doesn't care where Arsenal are in the table, he just wants to make Tottenham into a side that can challenge for the title and he feels that his side have hit top form.

As another old enemy, Michael Owen, said about the match in his Premier League betting preview: «Tony Pulis has lost only one of his last six Premier League home games with Arsenal and I expect to see his side bounce back after a couple of disappointing performances in recent weeks,»

So the enemy of the (Arsenal) State had something to say about the Arsenal season during the Chelsea Award / Dinner Night.

It seems to cheesy to say that the Utah Jazz's biggest enemy day is themselves, but that's what you have to talk about when the Jazz have been the better team over the remaining part of the season since these two teams last met.

Mourinho, though, was diplomatic when asked about the new City boss at his media unveiling this week, saying: «To speak about one manager, one club, and I don't like the word but one «enemy,» is not right.

She starts off saying IDing stress as the enemy is harmful and researchers have now shown that how you think about stress can make you healthier.

Can I just say that recently the Academy of Breast Feeding Madison wrote a blog about lactivism and the breastfeeding backlash, I think it was in October of last year, and what they said that any woman who has just had a baby would probably see a lactivist as the enemy.

A minister of State at the Presidency Rashid Pelpuo has said Ghanaians have no cause to worry about the arrival of the two former inmates of the Guantanamo Bay prison in the country since Ghana has no enemies in the world.

She talked about «domestic enemies» in the Congress and said, «I hope we're not getting to Second Amendment remedies.»

And the one thing I'll always say about politicians, the good ones know it's always better to make a friend in this game than a enemy.

Collins said the move wasn't about exacting revenge on a political enemy and it was only to help struggling upstate counties with their portion of Medicaid costs.

So, they're enemies of the anti-corruption struggle, there's no question about that», he said.

While urging the President to stop acting like the sole - administrator of Nigeria and the only honest man among Nigerians, Governor Fayose said «Nigerians are desirous of concrete developments, not rhetoric about fight against corruption that is only being used to persecute perceived political enemies of the President both in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and within the APC.

During a Blue Room press conference at City Hall, a seemingly exasperated Bloomberg said he «didn't even know» about Quinn's backing of Schneiderman, adding: «Why does there have to be an enemy and a fight on everything; why on earth would I care?»

He says Tony Blair's book «was better than some of his enemies were willing to admit» and he is similarly lukewarm about Balls» effort.

«I think I will seriously blight the chances of any Labour candidate by saying anything nice about them since I'm public enemy number one in their contest.»

Pack - Up's director, Scott P. Armstrong, said in an interview that the group specialized in opposition research about the «enemy candidates, if you will.»

Forget about the size of a baseball; if what you say is true about the inaccuracy of our perceptions, how can we be as sure as we are about the perception of our enemies — especially when you mix in some fear, anger and emotional sensitivity?