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.
You know that first love that leaves you? You never forget that, especially if you're a songwriter. I must have gotten nine songs out of that girl.
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.
There are lovers content with longing. Iβm not one of them.
There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever, like a sleeping child. All grief, anyone's grief...is the weight of a sleeping child.
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