“Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. If anyone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from anyone who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt. Give to everyone who begs from you; and if anyone takes away your goods, do not ask for them again. Do to others as you would have them do to you.
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. (Words by Jesus in Luke 6:27–36; see also Matt 5:38–48)
Taken from author John Dickson
“What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor,”
Rabbi Hillel
Do to others as you would have them do to you”
(Jesus in Luke 6:31; Matt 7:12)
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil … not to speak is to speak.Not to act is to act.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer,German pastor who fought Nazism and was executed.
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