| Clement Edwin Babb - Christian life - 1880 - 416 pages
...How shall we resist this tendency of our fallen nature? We are to aim at more than justice. We are to "love our enemies; to do good to them that hate us." This is the gospel plan for overcoming the downward drift of depravity, and for enabling us, in spite... | |
| Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - Apologetics - 1883 - 374 pages
...morality out of selfishness ? or recognise in Industrialism the new evolving force, which is to teach us to love our enemies, to do good to them that hate us, when Industrialism is based on self-interest, and teaches us to buy in the cheapest and sell in the... | |
| Thomas H. Kinane - 1884 - 572 pages
...take up our cross, and follow Christ, would seem almost impossible to frail humanity. To forgive, nay, to love our enemies, to do good to them that hate us, and to pray for them that persecute and calumniate us, appears even harder still. Before this mighty... | |
| Ann Branson - Quaker women - 1892 - 440 pages
...the field of slaughter, and other ways, contrary to the benign religion of Jesus, which teaches us to love our enemies, to do good to them that hate us, &c., and reflecting upon the destitute condition of widows and orphans, now suffering penury in consequence... | |
| 1851 - 638 pages
...gentle, passive, and conciliatory in our spirit, our speech, and our conduct. We are, in short, taught to love our enemies, to do good to them that hate us, and to pray for them that despitefully use and persecute us. But how can we be said to conform to the... | |
| John Bellows - Quakers - 1904 - 438 pages
...Christian standard makes no provision whatever for such contingencies. It tells us to suffer evil, to love our enemies, to do good to them that hate us, and a variety of other things that are impossible except our actions are made to spring from a new... | |
| Hymns, English - 1917 - 112 pages
...Enemies. 0 ALMIGHTY, Everlasting God, Who, through Thine Only Son, our blessed Lord, hast commanded us to love our enemies, to do good to them that hate us, and to pray for them that persecute us: We earnestly beseech Thee that by Thy gracious visitation they... | |
| Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod - Hymns, English - 1918 - 836 pages
...Amen. 27 O Almighty, Everlasting God, Who, through Thine Only Son, our blessed Lord, hast commanded us to love our enemies, to do good to them that hate us, and to pray for them that persecute us: We earnestly beseech Thee that by Thy gracious visitation they... | |
| Jonas Smucker Hartzler - Conscientious objectors - 1922 - 264 pages
...of eternal condemnation. I know the teachings of Christ my Savior. He taught us to resist not evil, to love our enemies, to do good to them that hate us. Not only did He teach this but He practiced it in Gethsemane, before Pilate, and on Calvary. We would,... | |
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