Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

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• The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

  

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• I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

  

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• I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.

  

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• I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.

  

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• Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

  

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• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

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• My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.

  

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• People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

  

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• 'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.

  

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• All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

  

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• I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.

  

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• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

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• When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

  

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• The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

  

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• Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.

  

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• If you can't bear what's happening to the natural world, if you can't bear the way we treat each other; if you can't bear wars, you just can't bear the whole idea of war, which is possibly unavoidable. But still, you resist it. Because you just hate our treating each other that way and causing that suffering.

  

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• Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.

  

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• I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • God
  • Business
  • Suffering