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.
What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?' Be yourself,' said Ipek.
And yet ... But what if ... I want to do something impossible. Something astounding and unheard of. I want to scrub the moss off the Space Shuttle and fly Julie to the moon and colonise it, or float a capsized cruise ship to some distant island where no one will protest us, or just harness the magic that brings me into the brains of the Living and use it to bring Julie into mine, because it's warm in here, it's quiet and lovely, and in here we aren't an absurd juxtaposition, we are perfect.
Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid Their mistress mounted through the empty skies In her light chariot quickly is convey'd; Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen Means to immure herself and not be seen.
In this world, there is no clarity. There is only love and action.
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of βgrisβ. But when it comes to you and I, color is all I see.
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