 Malice is the devil's picture. Lust makes men brutish; malice makes them devilish - it is mental murder. Author: Thomas Watson |
| Unspeakable sorrow usually follows upon hilarious joy, great depression after high excitement, deep withdrawal after burning fervor. Even in the matter of love, it may commence as such but due to some emotional alteration it may end up with a hatred whose intensity far exceeds the earlier love. Author: Watchman Nee |
| Spiritual sensing is usually made known through the feeling of a quiet and pliable emotion. If emotion is pliably subject to the spirit the latter, through the emotion, will love or hate exactly as God wishes. Author: Watchman Nee |
| Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Author: Francis of Assisi |
| No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves. Author: Francis of Assisi |
| So there is such a thing as perfect hatred, just as there is such a thing as righteous anger. But it is a hatred for God's enemies, not our own enemies. It is entirely free of all spite, rancor and vindictiveness, and is fired only by love for God's honor and glory. Author: John Stott
Source: The Message of the Sermon on the Mount, IVP, 1978, p. 117. |
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| I also think it's hard to hate one person but love another. It's hard to treat anybody right when our heart isn't right. Even people you want to love may be suffering from your bitterness, resentment and unforgiveness. Author: Joyce Meyer |
| Too many Christians become bitter and angry in the conflict. If we descend into hatefulness, we have already lost the battle. We must cooperate with God in turning what was meant for evil into a greater good within us. This is why we bless those who would curse us: It is not only for their sakes but to preserve our own soul from its natural response toward hatred. Author: Francis Frangipane |
| When boiled down to its essence, unforgiveness is hatred. Author: John R. Rice |
| You will never really love until you love someone who hates you. Author: Jack Hyles |
| No doctrine in the whole Word of God has more excited the hatred of mankind than the truth of the absolute sovereignty of God. The fact that "the Lord reigneth" is indisputable, and it is this fact that arouses the utmost opposition in the unrenewed human heart. Author: Charles Spurgeon |
| It is hard for anyone who has a personal, intimate relationship with Jesus Christ to accept that the world hates Him, this One whom we love so much... I thought of the Lord of Glory hanging upon the cross on Calvary's hill, with the mockers about Him. Yet He died for them--and for those who mock Him still. Author: T.A. McMahon |
