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.
The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father; but coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.
It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It was apparent to me that this bad man saw quite clearly the shadow of slowly and remorselessly approaching doom, and he railed at fortune for mocking him with the glitter of fleeting success.
The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty to the ear, or to the mind.
The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.
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