Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes About Christianity

• Christianity affirms that at the heart of reality is a Heart, a loving Father who works through history for the salvation of His children. Man cannot save himself, for man is not the measure of all things and humanity is not God. Bound by the chains of his own sin and finiteness, man needs a Savior.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  God, Christian, Religious

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

• But we are gravely mistaken to think that Christianity protects us from the pain and agony of mortal existence. Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear. To be a Christian, one must take up his cross, with all of its difficulties and agonizing and tragedy-packed content, and carry it until that very cross leaves its marks upon us and redeems us to that more excellent way which comes only through suffering.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Suffering, Crowns, Bears

  "A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings".

• We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed.... This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Commitment, Opposites, Practice

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

• Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever would be a Christian must be a nonconformist.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Moving, Majority

• We as Christians have a mandate to be nonconformists.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Christianity, Mandates

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.30, Beacon Press

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