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Love Your Enemies
by Matthew

Love Your Enemies
Ye have heard that it hath been said,
Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.
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.
- Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 5:43-44)

You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44

Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22

Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15

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(Jesus on Love)
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies
and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44

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.
- Matthew 5:44

Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7

Then came Peter to him, and said,
Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me,
and I forgive him? till seven times?
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee,
Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
- Matthew 18:21-22

(Jesus on Anger and Revenge)
You have heard that it was said,
"Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth."
But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person.
If someone strikes you on the right cheek,
turn to him the other also.
- Matthew 5:38-39

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson

Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
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For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
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Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz

We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa

Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
- Madonna

Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha

Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin

True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The most powerful form of love is unconditional love.
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I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
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Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost

Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand

Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin

If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa

Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong

Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa

When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank

You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others.
Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa

The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud

It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa

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