the greatest enemy QUOTES

1 " Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, " Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody." ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the " Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence. "

2 " What seems real one moment is fiction the next
and gone out of existence the moment after that.
Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,
and change our only constancy. "

― David Budbill , Judevine: The Complete Poems, 1970-1990

3 " Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God. "

― Martin Luther

4 " The greatest enemy of man is not sin, the enemy of man is not Satan, the greatest enemy is ignorance. "

5 " Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the world ought to work, and Christians instead believed in the revealing truth Scripture. "

― Charles W. Colson

6 " Have you got a local mind? Broaden it! Have you got an international mind? Broaden it! Have you got a universal mind? It is not enough, because there are other universes. Broaden it! Broaden your mind till you get a multi-universal mind! And yet, this is not enough too! Broaden it! Leave your village; leave your city; leave your country; leave the earth; leave the universe; leave all the universes! Don’t let your mind to cast anchor in any port! Narrow mind is the greatest enemy of the truth! The best mind is the one which has no frontiers! "

― Mehmet Murat ildan

7 " Normal is the greatest enemy with regard to creating the new. And the way of getting around this is you have to understand normal not as reality, but just a construct. And a way to do that, for example, is just travel to a lot of different countries and you'll find a thousand different ways of thinking the world is real, all of which are just stories inside of people's heads. That's what we are too. Normal is just a construct, and to the extent that you can see normal as a construct in yourself, you have freed yourself from the constraints of thinking this is the way the world is. Because it isn't. This is the way we are. "

― Alan Kay

8 " Fear is the greatest enemy of humanity, it paralyses tons and tons of people around the globe. "

― Euginia Herlihy

9 " Success-minded people know that the greatest enemy to today's success is yesterday's success. "

― John Patrick Hickey , All You Have Is Now: How Your Approach to the World Determines Your Destiny

10 " A hateful heart is the greatest enemy of its self-love. "

11 " It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness. "

― Robert Menzies

12 " The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. "

― J.G. Ballard ,

13 " Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace. "

― Lester B. Pearson

14 " I kept running around it in large or small circles, always looking for someone or something able to convince me of my Belovedness.Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the " Beloved" . Being the Beloved expresses the core truth of our existence. "