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.
I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being.
He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
The hardest times to choose love become the very times that you can most grow spiritually.
Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty.
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