Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

In a real sense faith is total surrender to God.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• I have faith in the jury system.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Faith
  • System
  • Jury

• I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.

  

  Patrick White
  • Trying
  • Faith
  • Air

• Non-violence is the article of faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Violence
  • Nonviolence

• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Belief

• If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Energy
  • Faith
  • Desire

• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Faith

• I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Think
  • Faith
  • Poetry

• If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Experience
  • Giving
  • Faith

• The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Faith
  • Food
  • Curious

• There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Night
  • Faith
  • Eyes

• Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Faith
  • Politics
  • Unity

• It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Country
  • Faith
  • Religion

• Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Sense

• The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Truth
  • Earth

• Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Faith
  • Style
  • Ideas

• Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was raised as a Lutheran, and I believe in God and consider my faith and involvement with organized religion to be an important part of who I am.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Important

• I do think faith is important when it introduces positivity into your life and you see it with love in your heart because there's so many people who unfortunately use faith for detrimental things or to justify detrimental actions.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • Care

• Thanks in large measure to the ACLU, the belief that there is a wall of separation between faith and state, not just church and state, is endemic. The exercise of religious faith in the public square is not prohibited; only the federal imposition of a particular faith. Hardly anyone any longer knows the difference.

  

  F. LaGard Smith
  • Faith
  • Church
  • Religious

• Congressional dysfunction is the logical result of closed primaries, too many gerrymandered one-party seats, and low-turnout elections.

  

  John Delaney
  • Party

• I certainly never imagined 80-year-olds singing along, like they were watching Cats. I'm fascinated by that kind of pop cultural zeitgeist that it's attached itself to.

  

  Josh Gad
  • Kind
  • Singing
  • Cat

• Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.

  

  Garth Nix
  • People
  • Love
  • Job

• In a real sense faith is total surrender to God.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Faith
  • Sense
  • Surrender To God