Luther Quotes

A faithful and good servant is a real godsend; but truly 't is a rare bird in the land. - Martin Luther

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called. - Billy Graham

[We drove down a few blocks and turned onto Prairie Chapel Road. On the corner was a Lutheran Church with a message board out front encouraging the flock to come out Sunday to show their support for the president and the troops. Jesus said, in the Sermon on the Mount,] Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God... Blessed are the warmongers, for they shall start wars for profit based on lies, and they shall send other people's children to kill and to die, and they shall be called the embarrassing and infrequently mentioned distant cousins in the family of God. - Bible

[The wearer of these sandals] did not look out on swirling dust devils or miles of alkali and sand flats, as we did that hot August day, but on a great lake with wavelets lapping against a beach below the cave. - Luther Cressman

[The controversy] almost always is something to say about someone's personal life. Sure, lots of men have affairs, but not everyone has the courage of Martin Luther King. - Rob Shetterly

[Luther] has been a catcher in summer league. She's very athletic and extremely fast. - Randy Osnes

[Luther could have solved this for us by coming out, but I can't hate on him too much for his silence. As I've said before, artists get moral allowances the rest of us don't. Their art is their get-out-of-jail-free card.] Luther's only politics... were music and love: He lived for the love of music and believed resolutely in the power of music to heal by affirming love. In that sense, Luther was an ethicist who taught any of us who would listen as much about love as did James Baldwin or Marlon Riggs or Marianne Williamson any other seer for whom Love with a capital L is the ultimate act. - Jason King

[In response, African-American Ministers In Action (AAMIA), a front group of People for the American Way, issued an August 25 press release in which AAMIA chairman Reverend Tim McDonald charged that Massie sought to] pull the wool over the eyes of the African-American community. ... John Roberts is no Martin Luther King, Jr. - Roger Wilkins

(Martin Luther King Day) promotes understanding. It pulls people together. - Vickie Williams