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Here and there an individual or group dares to love, and rises to the majestic heights of moral maturity. So in a real sense this is a great time to be alive.
The Quest for Peace and Justice (1964)
I'm going on believing and knowing that God is alive. You see, as long as love is around, God is alive. As long as justice is around, God is alive.
Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool (1967)
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Modern psychology recognizes what Jesus taught centuries ago: Hate divides the personality and love in an amazing and inexorable way unites it.
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. ... Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them.
Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies?
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
May we solemnly realize that we shall never be true sons of our heavenly Father until we love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us.
Loving Your Enemies (1957)
We must follow nonviolence and love.
Give Us the Ballot (1957)
Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it’s what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them.
Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything that will defeat an individual, because you have agape in your soul. And here you come to the point that you love the individual who does the evil deed, while hating the deed that the person does. This is what Jesus means when he says, "Love your enemy." This is the way to do it. When the opportunity presents itself when you can defeat your enemy, you must not do it.