By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth, is essential if we are to be transformed nonconformists . . . Only through an inner spiritual transformation do we gain the strength to fight vigorously the evils of the world in a humble and loving spirit.
Interpretation
Embracing spirituality leads to profound personal transformation, enabling us to confront challenges with love and humility.
This quote emphasizes the importance of a spiritual rebirth in the life of a believer, as articulated by Martin Luther King, Jr. It suggests that true transformation comes from within, allowing individuals to become empowered and resilient in the face of adversity while maintaining a humble and loving demeanor, ultimately enabling them to better combat the injustices of the world.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth and faith, this quote can inspire others to seek inner change.
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 don't 'have' a life, you 'are' life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy.
What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. What would become of me tomorrow I did not know.
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.
I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
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