The belief that God will do everything for man is as untenable as the belief that man can do everything for himself. It, too, is based on a lack of faith. We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.
Interpretation
True faith involves collaboration between humanity and the divine, not passivity or self-reliance.
This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes the importance of balancing faith in God with personal responsibility. It suggests that relying solely on divine intervention without taking action ourselves reflects a misunderstanding of faith, equating it instead to superstition. Faith, in this sense, should inspire action rather than inactivity, reinforcing that both divine help and human effort are necessary in striving for progress.
In practice
In a motivational speech encouraging self-improvement and faith in teamwork.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.
There's nothing interesting about looking perfect.
With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea?
The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.
I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.
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