{"quotes":[{"text":"Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist, that he does not revenge an injury; and it is equally as good in a political sense, for there is no end to retaliation; each retaliates on the other, and calls it justice: but to love in proportion to the injury, if it could be done, would be to offer a premium for a crime. Besides, the word enemies is too vague and general to be used in a moral maxim, which ought always to be clear and defined, like a proverb. If a man be the enemy of another from mistake and prejudice, as in the case of religious opinions, and sometimes in politics, that man is different to an enemy at heart with a criminal intention; and it is incumbent upon us, and it contributes also to our own tranquillity, that we put the best construction upon a thing that it will bear. But even this erroneous motive in him makes no motive for love on the other part; and to say that we can love voluntarily, and without a motive, is morally and physically impossible.Morality is injured by prescribing to it duties that, in the first place, are impossible to be performed, and if they could be would be productive of evil; or, as before said, be premiums for crime. The maxim of doing as we would be done unto does not include this strange doctrine of loving enemies; for no man expects to be loved himself for his crime or for his enmity.Those who preach this doctrine of loving their enemies, are in general the greatest persecutors, and they act consistently by so doing; for the doctrine is hypocritical, and it is natural that hypocrisy should act the reverse of what it preaches. For my own part, I disown the doctrine, and consider it as a feigned or fabulous morality; yet the man does not exist that can say I have persecuted him, or any man, or any set of men, either in the American Revolution, or in the French Revolution; or that I have, in any case, returned evil for evil.","author":"Thomas Paine","tags":["american-revolution","crime","dogma","enemies","feigned-morality","french-revolution","hypocrisy","injury","intention","justice","love","love-thy-enemy","loving","maxim","meaning","morality","motive","persecution","preach","premius","proverb","revenge","vague"],"id":4846,"author_id":"Thomas+Paine"},{"text":"Practicing what you preach is the world’s most eloquent sermon.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["christian","faith","faith","faith","guru","life-lesson","life","life","life","life-and-sayings","life-inspirational","matshona-dhliwayo","practicing","preach","preacher","religilou","religion","religion","sage","sermon","spiritual","spiritual","spirituality","teach","teacher"],"id":6124,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"The feet of them that preach the gospel of peace possess beauty.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["beauty","gospel","peace","preach","reward"],"id":7855,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Because you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["business","certainty","chief","confidence","development","ego","evolution","facts","growth","humility","information","insecurity","inspirational","intelligence","knowing","knowledge","learn","learning","lesson","motivational","not-knowing","philosophy","preach","pride","science","security","success","teach","truth","uncertainty","wisdom"],"id":11504,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The mistakes we regret the most are the ones we were too scared to make.","author":"Ollie Slaney","tags":["attitude","inspirational","life","mistakes","preach","truth"],"id":17424,"author_id":"Ollie+Slaney"},{"text":"If Satan really wanted to face Jesus Christ in a battle, he will be facilitating the End of the Age by helping to spread the gospel to the whole world. This must be fulfilled for the End to come. Matthew 24:14.","author":"Felix Wantang","tags":["battle","bible","fulfilled","god","gospel","help","holy-spirit","jesus-christ","preach","satan","the-earth","the-end-of-the-age"],"id":25751,"author_id":"Felix+Wantang"},{"text":"Preach little, Pray more;But Pray for all, not for your own satisfaction;.","author":"Mishra Ankit","tags":["pray","preach"],"id":31286,"author_id":"Mishra+Ankit"},{"text":"Buddha lets me see the world in color so that I can appreciate its color.Just as God too lets you see the color of beauty in the world.And so too with Allah because he lets you see the beauty in everything.....I cannot begin to understand all religions, but I know one thing.Color brings love into our world regardless of who we are; what we preach or what we believe in.And to me, that is the only truth that I know.","author":"Anthony T. Hincks","tags":["allah","beauty","because","buddha","color","colour","faith","god","into","life","love","philosophy","philosophy-of-religion","preach","regardless","religion","see","truth","understand","world"],"id":34579,"author_id":"Anthony+T.+Hincks"},{"text":"If talk is cheap, then being silent is expensive. And many people it seems, can't afford to buy into it.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["bigmouthed","blabbermouthed","blabby","buy-into","chatter","cheap","criticize","don-t-speak","expensive","foot-in-mouth","gossip","loquacious","preach","quiet","rambling","shut-up","silent","talk-down","talkative","tongue-in-cheek","verbose"],"id":45138,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"No one could preach if he seriously looked at his own sins.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["preach","preach-what-you-do","preacher","preaching","preaching-gospel","preaching","sin","sinner","sinners","sinners-like-me"],"id":45612,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":59,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}