A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther Quotations
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It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.
One who condones evil is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.
I have a dream that one day ... the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church it is a goodly Christian weapon.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.
We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Be a sinner and sin mightily, but more mightily believe and rejoice in Christ.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Here stand I. I can do no other.
A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
But I know somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.
Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this means we must develop a world perspective.
The time is always right to do what is right.
The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.
Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today.
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
Expediency asks the question - is it political?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
Expediency asks the question - is it political?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.
God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers, and clouds, and stars.
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act it is an attitude.
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
I?ve seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say:?We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we?ll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.
A man cannot do good before he is made good.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
If you're not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
A man who won?t die for something is not fit to live.
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.
The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
When you are right you cannot be too radical when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.