“If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.” – Robert Murray McCheyne1
“Cherish your enemies; they may be blessings in disguise.” – Woodrow Kroll
“The best way to destroy an enemy is to turn him into a friend.” – F. F. Bruce
“God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.” – Billy Graham
“The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.” – Corrie Ten Boom
“Seducers are more dangerous enemies to the church than persecutors.” – Matthew Henry
“Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.” – Charles Spurgeon
“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Nature teaches us to love our friends, but religion our enemies.” – Thomas Fuller
“We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.” – J. C. Ryle
“Prayer is the great engine to overthrow and rout my spiritual enemies, the great means to procure the graces of which I stand in hourly need.” – John Newton
“It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.” – Owen Feltham
“The good man has his enemies. He would not be like his Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for the friendship of the world is enmity to God.” – Charles Spurgeon
“The Christian will be sure to make enemies. It will be one of his objects to make none; but if doing what is right and believing what is true should cause him to lose every earthly friend, he will regard it as a small loss, since his great Friend in heaven will be even more friendly and will reveal Himself to him more graciously than ever.” – Alistair Begg
“In Jesus and for Him, enemies and friends alike are to be loved.” – Thomas a Kempis
“Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes–and your enemy looks just like your neighbor.” – Soren Kierkegaard
“Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1 All of these quotes are from the websites below: