In Christ there is no East nor West.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the idea that in Christ, divisions such as geographical boundaries do not matter.
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s quote emphasizes the universal nature of Christian love and the idea that in the spirit of Christ, humanity is united beyond cultural, geographic, or racial distinctions. It calls for a sense of togetherness, promoting the belief that all people are equal and deserving of love and respect, irrespective of their origins or backgrounds.
In practice
This quote can be used during an interfaith dialogue to promote understanding and acceptance.
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've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get out the hammer and start knocking in the wooden pegs that affix the meaning to the landscape, the inner life to the body, the names to the things. I float too much to wander, like you, in the real world. I envy it but that’s the dealio—you’re a train and I’m a trainstation and when I try to guess your trajectory I end up telling my own story.
The root of disaster means a star coming apart, and no image expresses better the look in a patient's eyes when hearing a neurosurgeon's diagnosis.
Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.
Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.
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