Quotes about Belief
I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time. .
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
You just have to take the first step , you don't have to see the whole staircase.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man has not discovered something that he could die for, he's not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is simply my way of saying that I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity. Occasionally in life one develops a conviction so precious and meaningful that he will stand on it till the end. That is what I have found in nonviolence.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only God is able. It is faith in Him that we must rediscover. With this faith we can transform bleak and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of joy and bring new light into the dark caverns of pessimism.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.