T Quotes
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“The enemy of mine enemy is not necessarily also my friend!..For a friend and ally today, maybe an enemy and adversary tomorrow!...friendships and alliances which are forged upon necessity as opposed to mutually shared respect and common values..Is a House built upon a foundation of mud!”
“The enemy of my enemy is also my enemy. A dark lord has no friends.”
Source: The Dark Lord's Handbook
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
“The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend - Skulduggery Pleasant.”
Source: Playing with Fire
“The enemy of my enemy may not yet be my friend, indeed it may never be my friend, but it is, at least, if not less of an enemy, then no longer among my most important enemies.”
“The enemy of my soul didn't want me painting that day. To create meant that I would look a little bit like my Creator. To overcome the terrifying angst of the blank canvas meant I would forever have more compassion for other artists. You better believe as I placed the first blue and gray strokes onto the white emptiness before me, the "not good enough" statement was pulsing through my head in almost deafening tones...
This parlaying lie is one of his favorite tactics to keep you disillusioned by disappointments. Walls go up, emotions run high, we get guarded, defensive, demotivated, and paralyzed by the endless ways we feel doomed to fail. This is when we quit. This is when we settle for the ease of facebook.... This is when we get a job to simply make money instead of pursuing our calling to make a difference. This is when we put the paintbrush down and don't even try.
So there I was. Standing before my painted blue boat, making a choice of which voice to listen to.
I'm convinced God was smiling. Pleased. Asking me to find delight in what is right. Wanting me to have compassion for myself by focusing on that part of my painting that expressed something beautiful. To just be eager to give that beauty to whoever dared to look at my boat. To create to love others. Not to beg them for validation.
But the enemy was perverting all that. Perfection mocked my boat. The bow was too high, the details too elementary, the reflection on the water too abrupt, and the back of the boat too off-center. Disappointment demanded I hyper-focused on what didn't look quite right.
It was my choice which narrative to hold on to: "Not good enough" or "Find delight in what is right." Each perspective swirled, begging me to declare it as truth.
I was struggling to make peace with my painting creation, because I was struggling to make make peace with myself as God's creation. Anytime we feel not good enough we deny the powerful truth that we are a glorious work of God in progress.
We are imperfect because we are unfinished.
So, as unfinished creations, of course everything we attempt will have imperfections. Everything we accomplish will have imperfections. And that's when it hit me: I expect a perfection in me and in others that not even God Himself expects. If God is patient with the process, why can't I be?
How many times have I let imperfections cause me to be too hard on myself and too harsh with others?
I force myself to send a picture of my boat to at least 20 friends. I was determined to not not be held back by the enemy's accusations that my artwork wasn't good enough to be considered "real art". This wasn't for validation but rather confirmation that I could see the imperfections in my painting but not deem it worthless. I could see the imperfections in me and not deem myself worthless. It was an act of self-compassion.
I now knew to stand before each painting with nothing but love, amazement, and delight. I refused to demand anything more from the artist. I just wanted to show up for every single piece she was so brave to put on display..
Might I just be courageous enough to stand before her work and require myself to find everything about it I love? Release my clenched fist and pouty disappointments, and trade my "live up" mentality for a "show up" one? It is so much more freeing to simply show up and be a finder of the good. Break from the secret disappointments. Let my brain venture down the tiny little opening of love..
And I realized what makes paintings so delightful. It's there imperfections. That's what makes it art. It's been touched by a human. It's been created by someone whose hands sweat and who can't possibly transfer divine perfection from what her eyes see to what her fingertips can create. It will be flawed.”
Source: It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered
“The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that happened in the Pacific was strange or unexpected.”
“The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of 'how to do'. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment.”
“The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.”
“The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.”
Source: The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
“The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.”
Source: This is Orson Welles
“The enemy of stability can be complacency”
“The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best.”
“The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy of Jew is not Arab, the enemy of youth is not the old, the enemy of hip is not redneck, the enemy of Chicano is not gringo and the enemy of women is not men. We all have the same enemy. The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind. The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.”
“The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.”
Source: The affluent society
“The enemy of the human race...invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation to the people.”
“The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.”
Source: Sign of the unicorn. The hand of Oberon. The Courts of Chaos
“The enemy of the spirit is the selfish ego, which thinks that happiness can be gained through causing unhappiness and disharmony to others. In many ancient languages, the word for enemy means "one who falls out of rhythm; one who is not working in harmony with the larger group."”
“The enemy often tries to make us attempt and start many projects so that we will be overwhelmed with too many tasks, and therefore achieve nothing and leave everything unfinished. Sometimes he even suggests the wish to undertake some excellent work that he foresees we will never accomplish. This is to distract us from the prosecution of some less excellent work that we would have easily completed. He does not care how many plans and beginnings we make, provided nothing is finished.”
“The enemy plotted against you and awaited your downfall. Look at you surviving. And your enemies can not figure out how. What you have inside is greater than any negative force.”
Source: Release The Ink
“The Enemy prefers Christians who are broke, bound by debt, helpless, bitter, and fruitless.”
Source: 5 Reasons God Wants You to Prosper: The Believer's Pathway to a Biblical Mindset of Wealth, Prosperity, and Abundance - Accessing Heaven's Riches Soundly and Biblically
“The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.”
Source: Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals
“The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.”
“The enemy's agenda is to build a vicious cycle of confused people who infect society with its evil ways ultimately destroying lives.”
“The enemy’s duty is to keep you off destiny through mountains and valleys that disrupt your tranquillity. Do not be deceived, keep your gaze on a great destiny.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“The enemy's most dangerous weapon is convincing you that you still have time, causing you to procrastinate while time passes by. That is why you must be wise and ask God to help you maximize your time.”
Source: The Precious Gift of Time: Inspirational Quotes and Sayings
“The enemy say that Americans are good at a long shot, but cannot stand the cold iron. I call upon you instantly to give a lie to this slander. Charge!”
Source: Memoirs of Lieut.-General Winfield Scott
“The enemy shapes the brand.”
“The enemy stays in the hearts of friends. Watch what your friends know about you and watch what you tell your friends, remember, egoism breeds jealousy and ends a relationship in discord.”
“The enemy takes what isn't his. Jesus gives from what is His. Which are you more like?”
“The enemy that is Envy is trigger-happy; he's pretty much a gunslinger who wields a silenced Demotivator - sent with sabotage, suicide, and suppression, he assassinates in secret, and so hopes to exterminate, to kill what was meant to motivate him - in simpler terms and less expression: he shoots the messenger.”
“The enemy thinks he's won. But I want to see his face when he realizes the truth. Don't you? It's going to be delightful.”
Source: Rhythm of War
“The enemy understands a free Iraq will be a major defeat in their ideology of hatred. That's why they're fighting so vociferously.”
“The enemy uses all his power to lead the Christian, and above all the minister, to neglect prayer. He knows that however admirable the sermon may be, however attractive the service, however faithful the pastoral visitation, none of these things can damage him or his kingdom if prayer is neglected.”
“The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall.”
“The enemy wants to steal our peace and keep us stirred up, anxious, fearful, upset, and always in a stance of waiting for something terrible to happen at any minute.”
Source: Prayer Warrior
“The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.”
Source: In Cold Blood
“The enemy was not the Klan but the inside-outside lock that racism and classism had on the minds of the people: It operated from the inside through self-hate and self-doubt, and from the outside through the police, carnivorous landlords, and the welfare system.”
Source: Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power
“The enemy was poverty, hunger, and scarcity, not each other.”
“The enemy was the microbial world, and over the centuries, it has killed more people than all of man's wars combined.”
Source: Gravity
“The enemy wasn't men, or women, or the old, or even the dead. it was just bleedin' stupid people, who came in all varieties.
And no one had the right to be stupid.”
Source: Monstrous Regiment
“The enemy will expose himself by making the object of his desire clear. His intention ruins him. Making him vulnerable to your attack.”
“The enemy will hit you in your area of strength to discourage himself.”
“The enemy will never cease to fight God’s plan for your life. That is why you should never cease to pray.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“The enemy will never stop coming after you. That is why you should keep praying, because each time you pray, he flees.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works
“The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you.”
Source: The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963
“The enemy will try anything to distract you, even then stay focused on your goals”