Enemy Quote by Justin Martyr

“We who formerly hated and murdered one another now live together and share the same table. We pray for our enemies and try to win those who hate us.” quote by Justin Martyr — Download Open image

“We who formerly hated and murdered one another now live together and share the same table. We pray for our enemies and try to win those who hate us.”

Justin Martyr

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Now bring what we have into common stock, and communicate to everyone in need; we who hated and destroyed one another, and on account of their different tribe, now since the coming of Christ, live familiarly with them, and pray for our enemies, and endeavor to persuade those who hate us unjustly, to the end that they may become partakers…

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By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.

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And if we even affirm that He was born of a virgin, accept this in common with what you accept of Perseus.

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The world suffers nothing from Christians but hates them because they reject its pleasures.

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“And when we say also that the Word, who is the first-birth of God, was produced without sexual union, and that He, Jesus Christ, our Teacher, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended into heaven, we propound nothing different from what you believe regarding those whom you esteem sons of Jupiter. For you know how many sons your…

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“Plain singing is not childish, but only the singing with lifeless organs, with dancing, and cymbals, &c. Whence the use of such instruments, and…

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We ourselves were well conversant with war, murder and everything evil, but all of us throughout the whole wide earth have traded in our weapons of war. We have exchanged our swords for plowshares, our spears for farm tools...now we cultivate the fear of God, justice, kindness, faith, and the expectation of the future given us through the Crucified One…The…

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