You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Yes, it is love that will save our world and our civilization, love even for enemies.

We love our enemies by realizing that they are not totally bad and that they are not beyond the reach of God's redemptive love.

We love America. Why are we proud? We are proud, first of all, because from the beginning of this nation, a man can walk upright, no matter who he is, or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friend - or his enemy; and he does not fear that because that enemy may be in a position of great power that he can be suddenly thrown in jail to rot there without charges and with no recourse to justice. We have the habeas corpus act and we respect it.

May we solemnly realize that we shall never be true sons of our heavenly Father until we love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us.