Quotes about Belief
This would be an unbearable world were God to have only a single light, but we may be consoled that God has two lights: a light to guide us in the brightness of the day when hopes are fulfilled and circumstances are favorable, and a light to guide us in the darkness of the midnight when we are thwarted and the slumbering giants of gloom and hopelessness rise in our souls.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
most people, and Christians in particular, are thermometers that record or register the temperature of majority opinion, not thermostats that transform and regulate the temperature of society.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
This may well be," I said, "the darkest hour just before dawn. We have moved all of these months with the daring faith that God was with us in our struggle. The many experiences of days gone by have vindicated that faith in a most unexpected manner. We must go out with the same faith, the same conviction. We must believe that a way will be made out of no way.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
God is neither Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian , nor Episcopalian [nor Reformed, either]. God transcends our denominations. If you are to be true witnesses for Christ, you must come to know this....
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
we will make progress if we freely admit that we have no magic.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
determination, enough courage and faith to meet the difficulties as they developed. When I hear, "People aren't ready," that's like telling a person who is trying
— Martin Luther King, Jr.