Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes About Heaven

• If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Heart, Emotional

• Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Baby, Heaven, News

• Whenever the early Christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being "disturbers of the peace" and "outside agitators." But they went on with the conviction that they were "a colony of heaven," and had to obey God rather than man. They were small in number but big in commitment. They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Peace, Commitment

• He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jobs, Greatness, Heaven

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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