one enemy QUOTES

1 " Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love. Be his enmity political or religious, he has nothing to expect from a follower of Jesus but unqualified love. In such love there is not inner discord between the private person and official capacity. In both we are disciples of Christ, or we are not Christians at all. "

― Dietrich Bonhoeffer , The Cost of Discipleship

2 " He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. "

3 " An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, —" He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. "

4 " I only have one enemy in this world and she can be very complicated.
After forty one years, I still haven't figured her out as yet, but I will -trust me- I am still working on a formula for you Algebra. "

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5 " The conviction that life has a purpose is rooted in every fibre of man, it is a property of the human substance. Free men give many names to this purpose, and think and talk a lot about its nature. But for us the question is simpler. Today, in this place, our only purpose is to reach the spring. At the moment we care about nothing else. Behind this aim there is not at the moment any other aim. In the morning while we wait endlessly lined up in roll-call square for the time to leave for work, while every breath of wind penetrates our clothes and runs in violent shivers over our defenceless bodies, and everything is grey around us, and we are grey; in the morning, when it is still dark, we all look at the sky in the east to spot the first signs of a milder season, and the rising of the sun is commented on every day: today a little earlier than yesterday, today a little warmer than yesterday, in two months, in a month, the cold will call a truce and we will have one enemy less. Today the sun rose bright and clear for the first time from the horizon of mud. It is a Polish sun, cold, white, distant, and only warms the skin, but when it dissolved the last mists a murmur ran through our colourless numbers, and when even I felt its lukewarmth through my clothes I understood how men can worship the sun. "

― Primo Levi , Survival in Auschwitz

6 " He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. "