When push comes to shove don't shove back?

When push comes to shove don't shove back?
I went to Portland to do some witnessing. And the day we arrived in Portland, we started to witness to some people around town at "Pioneer Square." As we doing some open air, my friend Jeremy started to witness to some skate borders, he was telling them, that they transgressed God's Holy Law that is the Ten Commandments. As we started to go through the Ten Commandments they started to feel the heat of God's Law coming down upon them. After some time of preaching to these skate borders they started to get real angry with us, because the Law of God was convicting their hearts. One lady got really mad at us, and went so far as to burn a pocket size Bible in front of us while we were still preaching, I told her how could you burn a Bible: this bible that she burned hit me on the arm I don't remember were it went, I didn't even realize it hit me until I felt a burn on my arm. Well this lady was not to happy with us she started to push one from guy our group, then for some weird reason she started to shove me she got in my face and tried to scare me it didn't work to she started to push me, she must have pushed me 4 feet back. Then I did something that I should have not done I pushed her after the first time she pushed me, I don't know why I pushed her I felt really bad of that I repented to the Lord Jesus and asked for forgiveness. But I learned a lesson not to shove back. This persecution we face as being a Christian is part of our walk with God, when we witness using the Moral Law of God, that is the Ten Commandments, this stuff will happen. Just remember Matthew 5:11 Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

I would try to memorize this verse for when this kind of stuff happens.

Oh praise God when they
hate you, and revile you,
and persecute you, for
your name sake I shall
rejoice and be glad for
your name sake.