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.
Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is an inferior and a superior party, one person is strong, the other weak, and that it is therefore natural for the powerful to rule over the powerless. To those who support patriarchal thinking, maintaining power and control is acceptable by whatever means.
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. Julia to Charles
What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.
When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'
Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
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