A Gift of Love Quotes

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“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.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“Asked by a shocked bystander how he could do this, Lincoln said, “Madam, do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” This is the power of redemptive love.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Gift of Love

“One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong. Only through the bringing together of head and heart—intelligence and goodness—shall man rise to a fulfillment of his true nature.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“The hardhearted person never sees people as a people, but rather as mere objects or as impersonal cogs in an ever-turning wheel. In the vast wheel of industry, he sees men as hands. In the massive wheel of big city life, he sees men as digits in a multitude. In the deadly wheel of army life, he sees men as numbers in a regiment. He depersonalizes life.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“The hardhearted individual never sees people as people, but rather as mere objects or as impersonal cogs in an ever-turning wheel. In the vast wheel of industry, he sees men as hands … He depersonalizes life.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings