Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.
Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.
Rioting is not revolutionary.
To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.
The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.
We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man’s inhumanity to man.
I’m very glad Christ tells us to love our neighbor and not to like our neighbor because it’s hard to like someone threatening your children and throwing fire bombs through your window, but He asks us to love them and that I can do.
If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That’s a new definition of greatness.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city.
Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.
Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society’s final assertion that it will not forgive.
Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.
Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?
If you can’t be a sun, be a star. For it isn’t by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.
Be sure to play “Blessed Lord” tonight – play it real pretty.
The body is God’s temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple.
People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.
The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.