In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within.

Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends - Dress is a table of your contents.

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.

You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy.

Undue enmity with enemies does not serve the interests of the system. Enemies must be dealt with wisely and prudently.

Always remember...the stronger your position in life, the more enemies you're gonna have .. while friends come and go.

But I believe the greatest enemy of the Bible is the so-called Christian who simply ignores the Bible or disregards it.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.

There is an enemy-maker in each of us. We make enemies of the people we love the most and the people we know the least.

I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.

the voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time.

American nation will not wait to be attacked again. We will defend our freedom and we will take the fight to the enemy.

God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.

It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.

Biting enemies seems to be acceptable in a surprisingly narrow range of circumstances, or so a ninja shouted at me once

It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.

There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war.

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.

My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries, lest thou come to smile at sin itself. It is thine enemy, and thy Lord's enemy.

The Bible says we need to love our enemies, bless our enemies. It does not say we should assume our enemies' priorities.

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely

Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies - not only outside, but also inside - just as in the days of Nehemiah.

Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.

Love is the real nuclear bomb that destroys all our enemies, because when we love all living beings, we have no enemies.

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.

Modern culture is a mighty force. It is either subservient to the gospel or else it is the deadliest enemy of the gospel

I don't want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging.

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.

Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.

Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

By doing that [ saying no boots on the ground], she [Hillary Clinton] has empowered the enemy, she's empowered the enemy.

An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.

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