Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

I don’t hate anyone including my enemies.

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

Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

Nothing enables us to forgive like knowing in our hearts that we have been forgiven.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Only the brave know how to forgive...

Love your enemies.

I don't believe revenge is part of my agenda. I'm a firm believer that, just like hate spreads hate, love and kindness spread love and kindness.

Love sinners, but hate their deeds, and do not disdain sinners for their failings, so that you yourself do not fall into the temptation in which they abide... Do not be angry at anyone and do not hate anyone, neither for their faith, nor for their shameful deeds... Do not foster hatred for the sinner, for we are all guilty... Hate his sins, and pray for him, so that you may be made like unto Christ, who had no dislike for sinners, but prayed for them.

Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner by loving our neighbor. Indeed, even by loving our enemies - at least by trying to learn to love them, and by believing that it is right to do so. With grace this is possible.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

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

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

Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss or we wound.

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

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

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

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

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.