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The chain reaction of evil-Hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars-must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
Let us move now from the practical how to the theoretical why: Why should we love our enemies?
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
Discover the element of good in your enemy. And as you seek to hate him, find the center of goodness and place your attention there and you will take a new attitude.
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love.
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
Another way is to acquiesce and to give in, to resign yourself to the oppression.
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
But that too isn't the way because non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
While abhorring segregation, we shall love the segregationist. This is the only way to create the beloved community.
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love.
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater.
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self.
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
There are a lot of people that I find it difficult to like.
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
There might be something within you that arouses the tragic hate response in the other individual.
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
No matter what he does, you see God's image there.
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
Modern psychology recognizes what Jesus taught centuries ago: Hate divides the personality and love in an amazing and inexorable way unites it.
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.
Loving Your Enemies (1957)