Turn The Other Cheek Quotes

“Love people who hate you. Pray for people who have wronged you. It won’t just change their life…it’ll change yours.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

“Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be to lift up our hands and bless him. Our enemies are the blessed of the Lord. Their curse can do us no harm. May their poverty be enriched with all the riches of God, with the blessing of Him whom they seek to oppose in vain. We are ready to endure their curses so long as they redound to their blessing.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“To make someone hate you even more, refuse to hate them back.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“She quoted Jesus and told me I needed to learn to turn the other cheek. “These things hit you,” she said. “They punched you in the face and now you have a choice. You can keep focusing on them and judging people who do them, or you can turn your cheek and focus on something new. Before you were obsessed with loving drugs, now you’re obsessed with hating them. Either way, your life is still ruled by them.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“It is possible to continue turning the other cheek when one has stopped counting.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Sad to say, but I’ve come to the conclusion that if you keep turning the other cheek they’ll go on slapping you in the face.”
― Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam

“If you’re the dog, allow yourself to get hit again. Then lick the hand that deals the blow.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Jesus might have said to turn the other cheek, but I ain’t no Jesus – if they come for my loved ones, they won’t even have a head over their shoulders!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Girl Over God: The Novel

“Giants in Jeans Sonnet 20

Who’s the saint, who’s the tyrant,
Is not determined by the show of strength.
Real mark of human character,
Lies in your gentleness radiant.
The strongest souls on earth,
Keep their strength hidden unless needed,
Whereas the shallow and the entitled,
Walk around trotting over the hearts of the helpless.
Turning the other cheek to the oppressor,
May work in a world of fairies.
In our primitive world of organic apes,
Turning the other cheek means aiding inhumanities.
Love is the only answer, there is no question,
But it is a lover's duty to stand up to oppression.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“There are times you gotta turn the other cheek, then there are times you gotta smack them back twice!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Woman Over World: The Novel

“Turn the other cheek. Yeah I get it -"

"Allow God to act on your behalf," Ariel said sternly... "Make room for divine intervention.”
― Freydís Moon, Exodus 20:3

“It came to me that to turn the other cheek, as he had done, was not simply to apply an ancient Christian precept but also to engage in a highly sophisticated psychological maneuver. 216”
― Helen Garner, Everywhere I Look