QUOTATION: Being Hated

Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.

--St. Jerome

QUOTATION: Overcoming Hatred

If, then, you bear a hatred toward anyone, overcome it by doing that person a favor.

--Fulton J. Sheen, Preface to Religion

QUOTATION: Hatred

America’s greatest enemy is not from without, but from within, and that enemy is hate: hatred of races, peoples, classes and religions. If America ever dies, it will be not through conquest but suicide.

--Fulton J. Sheen, Preface to Religion

QUOTATION: Hate

You cannot cure small hates with big hates.

--Fulton J. Sheen, Preface to Religion

QUOTATION: Hatred of Our Enemy

It is strange that we should not realize that no enemy could be more dangerous to us than the hatred with which we hate him, and that by our efforts we do less damage to our enemy than is wrought in our own heart.

--St. Augustine, Confessions, Book One, XVIII

QUOTATION: It All Boils Down to Love

You may fast regularly, give alms, and pray without ceasing, but as long as you hate your brother, you will not be numbered among the children of God.

--Venerable Louis de Blois

QUOTATION: Why Turn the Other Cheek

Why turn the other cheek? Because hate multiplies like a seed. If one preaches hate and violence to ten men in a row, and tells the first man to strike the second, and the second to strike the third, the hatred will envelop all ten. The only way to stop this hate is for one man (say the fifth in line), to turn his other cheek. Then the hatred ends. It is never passed on. Absorb violence for the sake of the Savior, Who will absorb sin and die for it. The Christian law is that the innocent shall suffer for the guilty.

--Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ

QUOTATION: Love and Hate

Love must precede hatred, hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.

--St. Thomas Aquinas

QUOTATION: Love and Hate

Love fights. Love cares. Love discriminates. And therefore there is in Scripture, very clearly, a thing called the ‘wrath of God’. God hates all enemies of love as the doctor hates the cancer that’s killing his beloved patient. If you really love a human being you will hate all the dehumanizing forces that are harmful to that human being.

If on the other hand you don’t really love a human being but just tolerate a human being, then you will hate nothing. So, love and hate go together. Love of a human being, no matter who he is, and hate of a human being, no matter who he is, are exact opposites, they are black and white. But love of all humans and hate of all sins – that goes together.

--Peter Kreeft,

QUOTATION: Hell

The first gate of Hell is hatred. As Paradise is the kingdom of love, so Hell is the kingdom of hatred. Father, says such a person, I am grateful to and love my friends, but I cannot endure him who does me an injury. Now, brother, you must know that the barbarians, the Turks and Indians say and do all this: Do not also the heathens this? says the Lord. To wish well to him who serves you is a natural thing; it is done not only by the infidel, but even by the brutes and wild beasts. But I say to you. Hear what I say to you says Jesus Christ; hear My law, which is a law of love: Love your enemies.

--St. Alphonsus Liguori. Six Discourses on Natural Calamities, Divine Threats, and the Four Gates of Hell

QUOTATION: Love and Hate

Sometimes hatred is charming, while love must show itself severe.

--St. Augustine

QUOTATION: Turning the Other Cheek

Why should we turn the other cheek? Because hate multiplies like a seed. If one preaches hate and violence to ten men in a row, and tells the first to strike the second, and the second to strike the third, the hatred will envelop all ten. The only way to stop this hate is for one man to turn his other cheek. Then the hatred ends. It is never passed on. Absorb violence for the sake of the Savior, who will absorb sin and die for it.

--Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

QUOTATION: Loving those with whom you argue

Learn to defend your convictions without hating your adversaries and love those who think differently from yourselves.

--Blessed Frederic Ozanam