Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.
Interpretation
Worship is inherent to humanity, just as the sun's song is intrinsic to the universe.
In this quote, Martin Luther King, Jr. suggests that worship is a fundamental aspect of being human. Just as the presence and movement of the sun are essential to the existence of the cosmos, so too is the act of worship an essential element that connects humanity to something greater than itself, reflecting a deep-seated need for spirituality and reverence in human life.
In practice
During a speech about community values, the quote can reinforce the importance of collective worship and connection.
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's make two things clear: Isil is not "Islamic." No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of Isil's victims have been Muslim. And Isil is certainly not a state.
If precious metals had been abundant, they would not have been precious.
Bad promises are better broken than kept.
That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.
True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.
Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.
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