Monday, October 15, 2012

Lincoln on Being Courteous to Ones Enemies

"When Abraham Lincoln was criticized for being too courteous to his enemies and reminded that it was his duty to destroy them, he gave the great answer, "Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" Even if a man is utterly mistaken, we must never regard him as an enemy to be destroyed but as a strayed freiend to be recovered by love."

(William Barclay, The Gospel of Luke, commenting on Luke 9:49-56, 130-131)

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