I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is love.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the power of love as a conscious choice linked to the ultimate goodness.
Martin Luther King, Jr. underscores the importance of love as a deliberate decision rather than a mere emotion. He asserts that true goodness can be discovered through love, equating love itself with divinity, suggesting that embracing love leads to a higher purpose and fulfillment in life.
In practice
In a wedding ceremony to express the foundation of their union.
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.
Let us not love by words alone, but let us love until it hurts.
The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that was why she now felt that she was on the threshold of a new life, a happiness bound to endure for a very long time.
She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her heart that told her he was her all in all, the only man in all the world for her for love was the master guide. Come what might she would be wild, untrammelled, free.
You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you, but that you'll be able to love others.
Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.
Maybe this is why Misty loved him. Loved you. Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself.
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