Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes About Pain

• Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Pain, Divorce

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

• I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Wisdom, Pain

• Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having their legs off, and then being condemned for being a cripple.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, Growing Up, Pain

• Nothing pains some people more than having to think

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  Pain, Emotional, Thinking

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.22, Beacon Press

• Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar because a higher moral law was involved. It was practiced superbly by the early Christians who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks, before submitting to certain unjust laws of the Roman empire.

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  Christian, Pain, Block

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.93, Beacon Press

• The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Pain, Fear

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

• The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.

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  Christian, Pain, Disappointment

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

• The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Pain, May, Life Is

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

• The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

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  Pain, Science, Ideas

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.3, Beacon Press

• The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hurt, Pain, Ease

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