Relationships
“Love your enemies, or you will not lose them; and if you love them, you will help to reform them.”
Mary Baker Eddy
Miscellaneous Writings, page 210
“Each day I pray: “God bless my enemies; make them Thy friends; give them to know the joy and the peace of love.”
Mary Baker Eddy
The First Church of Christ, Scientist and Miscellany, page 220
“Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;”
Matthew 5: 43,44
The Bible, King James Version
“Our goal isn’t to love people as flawed human beings but to lift thought to the contemplation of man as God’s spiritual image and likeness. When we are able to see from this new, true perspective, it’s easy and natural to love even our enemies impartially and universally.”
“Jesus saw each individual as a son or daughter of God, good. And he did so on the basis of what is always true of their real, spiritual identity as God’s offspring rather than their past or present actions.”
“Practicing forbearance not only benefits others but is also key to our own freedom.”
“Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.”
Matthew 6:12
The Bible, King James Version
“Love is reflected in love.”
Mary Baker Eddy
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
“Each of us has the natural capacity to express patience and grace as a child of God—as the spiritual reflection of God’s being.”
“The Bible teaches forbearance, or patient restraint in the face of another’s moral lapse, as a means of giving him the mental space to learn some needed lesson.”