Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

For Faith is the beginning and the end is love, and God is the two of them brought into unity. After these comes whatever else makes up a Christian gentleman.

We will base our actions upon the sublime truths which the Holy Religion of our Savior teaches. Both in the administration of our respective States, and in our political relations with every other government, we take for our sole guide the precepts of Holy Religion, namely, the precepts of Justice, Christian Charity and Peace, which, far from being applicable only to private concerns, must have an immediate influence on the councils of Princes, and guide all their steps.

[Jesus] said that they will know we are Christians - not by our bumper stickers and T-shirts - but by our love.

For us Christians, love of neighbour springs from love of God; and it is its most limpid expression. Here one tries to love one's neighbour, but also to allow oneself to be loved by one's neighbour. These two attitudes go together, one cannot be exercised without the other. Printed on the letterhead of the Missionaries of Charity are these words of Jesus: "as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me". Loving God in our brethren and loving our brethren in God.

Brotherly love is still the distinguishing badge of every true Christian.

While love is one of God's attributes, it's not his only attribute. God is also holy and just.

On Easter I do reflect on the fact that as a Christian I am supposed to love, and I have to say that sometimes, when I've listened to less-than-loving expressions by Christians, I get concerned.

Live on Christ's love while ye are here, and all the way.

God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love.

Christian life consists of faith and charity

If God were not just, there would be no demand for his Son to suffer and die. And if God were not loving, there would be no willingness for his Son to suffer and die. But God is both just and loving. Therefore his love is willing to meet the demands of his justice.

Humanity needs justice, peace and love and we can have this only by returning with our hearts towards God who is the source of all this.

The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.

If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.

Are you angry with someone? Pray for that person. That is what Christian love is.

The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.

The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained.

From the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what he does but through what he accepts. He must wait for the gift of love, and love can only be received as a gift... One must wait for it, let it be given to one. And one cannot become wholly man in any other way than by being loved, by letting oneself be loved... If he declines to let himself be presented with the gift, then he destroys himself.

As a Christian, you can enjoy life because your conscience is clear. You can enjoy life because you are secure within God's love.

God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.

If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'

Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.