Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Was not Paul an extremist for the gospel of Jesus Christ? - "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word .… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
He (Jesus) knew that the old eye-for-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life -- trust, love, mercy, and altruism --… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus'… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Somebody must have sense enough to meet hate with love. Somebody must have sense enough to meet physical force with soul force.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns; and just as the Apostle Paul left his little village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every hamlet and city of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified… All three were crucified for the same crime-the crime of extremism.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a power in love that our world has not discovered yet. Jesus discovered it centuries ago. Mahatma Gandhi of India… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are not wrong, we are not wrong in what we are doing. If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There may come a time when it will be possible for you to humiliate your worst enemy or even to defeat him,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, 'Love your enemies.' It is this: that love has within it… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living. If we… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
![“There may come a time when it will be possible for you to humiliate your worst enemy or even to defeat him, but in order to love the enemy you must not do it... The Greek language has another word [for love]. It calls it agape. Agape is more than romantic love. Agape is more than friendship. Agape…” quote by Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2eb/martin-luther-king-jr-127_agape_there-may-come-a-time-when-it-will-be-po_2953320.jpg)
