Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

If one permits an infidel to continue in his role as a corrupter of the earth, his moral suffering will be all the worse. If one kills the infidel, and this stops him from perpetrating his misdeeds, his death will be a blessing to him.

I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.

Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

The most remarkable thing about suffering is that God can use it for our good.

The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.

God lets us continue to feel much of sin's sting through suffering while we're heading for heaven. This constantly reminds us of what we're being delivered from; exposing sin for the poison it is.

All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

I only know that when Jesus is with a person, that one can endure the deepest suffering and somehow emerge a better and stronger Christian because of it.

The death, and the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus happened over three days. Friday was the day of suffering and pain and agony. Saturday was the day of doubt and confusion and misery. But Easter, that Sunday, was the day of hope and joy and victory. You will face these three days over and over and over in your lifetime. And when you do, you’ll find yourself asking, as I did, three fundamental questions: Number one, what do I do in my days of pain? Two, how do I get through my days of doubt and confusion? Three, how do I get to the days of joy and victory? The answer is Easter.

[God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.

Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked path to spiritual power and fruitfulness.

God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.

A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.

Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.

A scar is a wound that has healed. We need to bring our wounds to Jesus, let Him heal them, and use our scars for Jesus. Our scars may be our greatest ministry.

Some scars never heal. And he sounds like he has a lot of them.' 'But Christ had scars too, even on His risen Body. Wounds in this life become glory in the next.

You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.

Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.

If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.

No one is ever holy without suffering.

God wants the world to see what God can do with his purchased possessions. So he prunes you.