Famous Quotes Section
Your source for life affirming proverbs and quotations from famous people and literature.
"Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us." — President Abraham Lincoln
"If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal it will become an irrelevant social without moral or spiritual authority." — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." — Archbishop Desmond Tutu
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." — Samuel Johnson (English Poet, Critic and Writer, 1709-1784) and Martin Luther King Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," April 16, 1963.
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your task." — Phillips Brooks
"Guilty? Yes. No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; But oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime!" — Susan B. Anthony (The Revolution, 4(1):4 July 8, 1869)
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" — Edmund Burke (British Statesman, 1729-1797)
"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers." — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"An individual born of a human father and a human mother is, by nature, a human being and a person." — Dr. Raymond L. Dennehy
"My grandfather, Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr., or 'Daddy King', was a Republican and father of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was a Republican." — Dr. Alveda C. King (Niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"If you want peace, work for justice." — Pope Paul VI"If you want justice, defend life." — Pope John Paul II
"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." — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
"Can anyone spread Christianity by being un-Christian?" — Father Augustine Tolton (1854-1897), The First Black Priest of the United States
"Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself. If love is not revealed to him. If he does not encounter love. If he does not experience it and make it his own. If he does not participate intimately in it." — John Paul II (Redemptor Hominis)
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