Martin Luther Quotes

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.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

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

The time is always right to do the right thing.

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

Christian life consists in faith and charity.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

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

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree

The fewer the words the better the prayer.

Peace if possible but truth at any rate.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.

Keep your promises and never be late in acting. Act right and do the right things at the right time.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Christian life consists of faith and charity.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

One of the first steps to successful leadership is to always forget your age and remember your dream regularly.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

To progress is always to begin always to begin again

All who call on God in true faith earnestly from the heart will certainly be heard and will receive what they have asked and desired.

You have as much laughter as you have faith.

Nothing worthwhile is gained without sacrifice.

Forgiveness is God's command.

When religion becomes so involved in a future good "over yonder" that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned.

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.

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

The Cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go to in order to restore broken community.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Everything bad in the Old Testament (and there's a lot) is there to point out our sin, while everything good in the Old Testament is there to point us to our Savior.

One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time. .

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.