“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
How have you witnessed love and power work together?
“Nothing you can do, but you can learnHow to be you in timeIt’s easy–
All you need is loveAll you need is loveAll you need is love, loveLove is all you need” -The Beatles (Lennon/McCartney)
How can love help you learn how to be you?
“Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.” -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
How can you release hatred and bitterness today?
“This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one’s tribe, race, class and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all mankind.This oft misunderstood, this oft misinterpreted concept, so readily dismissed by the Nietzsches of the world as a weak and cowardly force, has now become an absolute necessity for the survival of man. When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I’m not speaking of that force which is just emotional bosh. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.” -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, in “Beyond Vietnam”
How have you experienced the powerful force of love?
“Grant that we will love Thee with all our hearts, souls, and minds, and love our neighbors as we love ourselves, even our enemy neighbors.” -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from a prayer following his sermon “Loving Your Enemies,” 3/7/61
How do you react to the spiritual teaching to love your enemies?
