Darkness cannot drive out
darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do
that.
Faith is taking the first step
even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
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.
A man who won’t die for something
is not fit to live.
Our scientific power as outrun
our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
I have decided to stick with
love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
In the end, we will remember not
the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Nothing in the world is more
dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Every man must decide whether he
will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive
selfishness.
History will have to record that
the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident
clamour of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
We must develop and maintain the
capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the
power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best
of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Rarely do we find men who
willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than
having to think.
To be a Christian without prayer
is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Man must evolve for all human
conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The
foundation of such a method is love.
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.
Have we not come to such an
impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies –or else? The chain
reaction of evil –hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be
broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
I have a dream that one day every
valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough
places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and
all flesh shall see it together.
The hottest place in Hell is
reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
Whatever your life’s work is, do
it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the
unborn could do it no better.
The first question which the
priest and the Levite asked was: “Of I stop to help this man, what will happen
to me?” But…the good Samaritan reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help
this man, what will happen to him?”
The time is always right to do
what is right.
At the centre of non-violence
stands the principle of love.
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