Can you love your enemies?

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O Lord, grant us to love Thee: grant that we may love those that love Thee; grant that we may do the deeds that win Thy love.

(Islam: Muhhamad)

Hatres is not conlquered by hatres at any time, but hatred is won by love: this is an eternal truth

(Hinduism: Gautama Buddha)

“I say this to you who are listening. Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who treat you badly. To the man who slaps you on one cheek, present the other cheek too….Love your enemies. ”
(Christianity: Luke 6:27-29)

If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls; if they injure you, teach them how to be comforted; if they inflict a wound upon you, be a balm to their sores; if they sting you, hold to their lips a refreshing cup.

(Baha’i Faith: Selections from the Writings of `Abdu'l-Baha, Page 24)

“All [human] creatures are God’s children, and those dearest to God are those who treat His children kindly.”

(Islam: Hadith of Baihaqi)

The good deed and the evil deed are not alike. Repel the evil deed with one which is better, then lo!, he between whom and you there was enmity shall become as though he were a bosom friend!

(Islam: Koran 41.34)

Better [is] a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

^{(Judaism: Proverbs 17.9)}

Conquer anger by love. Conquer evil by good. Conquer the stingy by giving. Conquer the liar by truth.

(Buddhism: Dhammapada 223)

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I [am] the LORD.

(Judaism: Leviticus 19.18)