5 Quotes in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
As we remember the peacemaking efforts and triumphs of Martin Luther King Jr., and as we pray and ponder what peace looks like in 2020 and beyond, consider these five quotes:
We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say “We must not wage war.” It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nobel Lecture 1964
Trillia J. Newbell
The refusal to act in the midst of injustice is itself an act of injustice. Indifference to oppression perpetuates oppression.
We can so clearly see throughout Scripture that God celebrates the diversity of His creation. He does not distinguish between races in His saving love. He created man in His own image, sent His Son to save the world, and saves anyone who believes. God calls Christians to be imitators of Christ and to walk in love. If He doesn’t show partiality, neither should we.
Natasha Sistrunk Robinson
A Sojourner’s Truth: Choosing Freedom and Courage in a Divided World
His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of two, thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.
I wanted to become a peacemaker and not a ‘peace faker.’ Yet the healing did not come for us individually or collectively until we truly confessed our sins to God and to each other, until we replaced the lies we had accepted and believed about the other with the truth of how God wants us to become his agents of grace for each other, and until we repented of the old way.
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