Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you."
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the radical nature of love and forgiveness as taught by Jesus, suggesting that true love is not limited to friends but extends to all, even adversaries.
Martin Luther King, Jr. reflects on the teachings of Jesus, highlighting that to truly embody love, one must embrace an extreme form of it that includes loving those who harm or oppose us. This radical approach to love challenges societal norms and urges individuals to rise above hatred and revenge, promoting a message of compassion and understanding even in the face of adversity.
In practice
Use this quote in a sermon to encourage unconditional love.
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.
She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.
And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you.
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.
I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.
Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams:_x000D_ _x000D_ The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;_x000D_ _x000D_ So, when affection yields discourse, it seems_x000D_ _x000D_ The bottom is but shallow whence they come._x000D_ _x000D_ They that are rich in words, in words discover
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