In Christ there is no East nor West.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the idea that in Christ, divisions such as geographical boundaries do not matter.
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s quote emphasizes the universal nature of Christian love and the idea that in the spirit of Christ, humanity is united beyond cultural, geographic, or racial distinctions. It calls for a sense of togetherness, promoting the belief that all people are equal and deserving of love and respect, irrespective of their origins or backgrounds.
In practice
This quote can be used during an interfaith dialogue to promote understanding and acceptance.
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.
It's only possible to see people when one is able to see the world as others see it.
If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.
Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a peculiar mode of Being, a living atom within it, or, rather, a cell that, if sufficiently open to itself and its own mystery, can also experience the mystery, the will, the pain, and the hope of the world.
Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?
When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality - so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
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