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“Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.”

People Doe Faith Quality Enemy Sake Worthy Distinction Unworthy Disinterested Loving Others Friends And Enemies Agape Disinterested Love

Book:A Martin Luther King Treasury

Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury

“Faith, in order to be genuine and of any real value, must be the offspring of that divine love which Jesus manifested when He prayed for His enemies on the cross.”

Real Values Faith Order Jesus Enemy Divine Crosses Genuine Divine Love Offspring Real Value

Author:Hosea Ballou

“Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress.”

Ifs May Faith Turns Enemy Not Sure Quarrels Mistress

Author:Propertius

“If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.”

Ifs Knows Life Success Faith Enemy Mad Mad At Him

Author:Denzel Washington

“Reason is the enemy of faith.”

Reason Faith Enemy

Author:Martin Luther

“Now bring what we have into common stock, and communicate to everyone in need; we who hated and destroyed one another, and on account of their different tribe, now since the coming of Christ, live familiarly with them, and pray for our enemies, and endeavor to persuade those who hate us unjustly, to the end that they may become partakers of the same joyful hope of a reward from God the ruler of all.”

Needs May Different Ends Faith Hate Christ Common Christianity Enemy Praying Accounts Rewards Communicate Christian Life Destroyed Hated Endeavor Joyful Rulers Tribes

Author:Justin Martyr

“Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were, to be in collusion with the Church's enemies and in conformity with the open foes of our faith.”

Should Desire Faith Left Church Enemy Catholic Salvation Sincere Conformity Foe Clergymen Collusion Unshakable Faith

Author:Peter Canisius

“God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably.... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend. We must find him in the pagan or we will lose him in our own selves, substituting for his living presence an empty abstraction.”

May Self Inspiration Faith Speak Loses Enemy Empty Christian Inspirational Abstraction Pagan

Book:From the Monastery to the World: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal

Source: From the Monastery to the World: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal

“Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.”

Inspiration Faith Evil Enemy Dangerous Catholic Christian Inspirational Inclination Bishops

Author:Ambrose

“Faith is the enemy of discovery.”

Faith Enemy Discovery

Author:Simon Mawer

“We've backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going to beg with you for a minute. I'm going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.”

“God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.”

Men World Humans Form Faith Christ Perfect Enemy Surrender Humiliation Human Form

Author:C. S. Lewis