Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you."

Probably the most profound thing in the Bible is 'Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.' This is what, to me, is the essence of Christianity.

No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.

I have no message of hate. I do not attack any religion. I just preach Jesus.

In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate campaigns. To retaliate with hate and bitterness would do nothing but intensify the hate in the world. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can be done only by projecting the ethics of love to the center of our lives.

It really is a strange time we're living in, when saying 'Don't kill people' is considered a radical point of view.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

Christians are supposed to be the most forgiving people on the face of the Earth.

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

Your majesty ... give the assassins money and send them away somewhere to America, and write a manifesto starting with the words: 'but I say to you, love your enemies,'....from these words, like a flood, goodness and love would pour forth over Russia.

I do not believe in the law of hate.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.