The command to love our enemies stands at the center of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus' life message. Never before in history had anyone suggested such a daring proposal. Today, nearly two thousand years later, Jesus' way of love offers a way out of the world's nightmare of hatred and war. "Love for our enemies," Martin Luther King, Jr. concluded, "is the key to the solution of the problems of the world."
— John Dear, Jesus the Rebel