In the crazy world that we’re living, losing hope in humanity, feeling lost and anxious, living in scarcity is unfortunately natural. Hence, you need to read these Martin Luther King quotes to restore your faith and hope for everything that is good.
As Maya Angelou said in one of her interviews, Martin Luther King’s courage was commendable. Courage is not only needed on battlefields and addressing thousands of people in a conference, it is needed simply to love, be compassionate and kind. Courage is needed to be that everything and MLK certainly had a ton to offer to bring in marvellous changes into the world like he did.
So, take the dose of inspiration, and motivation, and maybe gain some enlightenment by giving this not a quick but a careful read. His fruitful thoughts will certainly give you some profound insights about life you didn’t have till now.
Inspirational Martin Luther Quotes for Personal Growth & Positivity
1. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963
2. “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” – Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
3. “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” – Attributed
4. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Strength to Love, 1963
5. “The time is always right to do what is right.” – Oberlin College Commencement Speech, 1965
6. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – I Have a Dream Speech, 1963
7. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Oberlin College Commencement Speech, 1965
8. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” – Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
9. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” – A Christmas Sermon on Peace, 1967
10. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'” – Montgomery, AL, 1957
Motivational Martin Luther Quotes On Hope For Hard Times
1. “Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.”
2. “God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.”
3. “Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.”
4. “I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.”
5. “Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.”
6. “To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”
7. “Pray, and let God worry.”
8. “The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God.”
9. “The fewer the words, the better the prayer.”
10. “God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.”
Martin Luther Quotes & Teachings On Love
1. “God does not love that which is already in itself worthy of love, but on the contrary, that which in itself has no worth acquires worth just by becoming the object of God’s love.”
2. “The love of God does not find, but creates, that which is pleasing to it. The love of man comes into being through that which is pleasing to it.”
3. “To love is not to will to possess, but to will to cherish.”
4. “There is no greater love than that one lays down his life for his friends.”
5. “No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.”
6. “The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience, the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy.”
7. “You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.”
8. “The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.”
9. “Therefore, when I have learned to love my neighbor, whom I see, I shall learn to love God, whom I do not see.”
10. “Our Lord God must be a good man to put up with the likes of us. There is no one else who would be so patient with us.”
Martin Luther Quotes About Racism and Nonviolence
1. “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” – Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1964
2. “Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.” – Why We Can’t Wait, 1964
3. “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” – St. Louis, 1964
4. “We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.” – Strength to Love, 1963
5. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” – Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963
6. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” – A Christmas Sermon on Peace, 1967
7. “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” – Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
8. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Strength to Love, 1963
9. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Strength to Love, 1963
10. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – I Have a Dream Speech, 1963
Educational Quotes From Martin Luther
1. “The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.”
2. “I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.”
3. “I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men and women are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt.”
4. “The youth must be taught the Scriptures, and diligently instructed in the truth of God’s Word. We must not think only of preaching, and imagine that by the sermon and the spoken word of God everything has been done.”
5. “To neglect the young in our schools is just as if one were to let the fields lie fallow and waste.”
6. “I am much afraid that schools will prove to be the great gates of hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth.”
7. “Nothing in all the world is of greater importance for the public welfare, is more necessary and beneficial, than good schools.”
8. “For in the knowledge of God is contained that of all His creatures. And what are all creatures, compared with God, but a sort of mask, through which the invisible things of God are made visible.”
9. “Without the Word of God the world is impossible. We could not know truth, we could not discern what is right and just, we could not know what we are to do to be saved.”
10. “The universities only ought to turn out men who are experts in the Holy Scriptures, men who can become bishops and priests, and stand in the front line against heretics, the devil, and all the world.”
Martin Luther’s Quotes On Freedom & Leadership
1. “A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.”
2. “To be a Christian is not to have religion enough to be saved, but to have enough to serve others.”
3. “For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.”
4. “The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man’s reason.”
5. “I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.”
6. “You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.”
7. “True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.”
8. “Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness.”
9. “To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.”
10. “The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.”