Words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

A lie cannot live.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

A right delayed is a right denied.

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Truth

The Truth is heavy, therefore few care to carry it.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. ---Josh Billings

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so. --Theodore Parker

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody’s church. --Robert Farrar Capon

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.-- Winston Churchill

To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle. -- George Orwell

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.-- Galileo Galilei

We are often unprepared for Truth, which is why Truth is revealed to us progressively. --Chip Brogden

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. --Agnes Repplier

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. --Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Truth: the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death.-- John Gilmore

Do not fear to repeat what has already been said. Men need the truth dinned into their ears many times and from all sides. The first rumor makes them prick up their ears, the second registers, and the third enters.--Rene Theophile Hyacinthe LaÎnnec

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. --Jim Davis

The truth is "hate speech" only to those who have something to hide.--Michael Rivero

From the cowardice that shrinks from new truth; from the laziness that is content with half-truths; from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth – oh God of Truth deliver us!—Unknown

The search for truth implies a duty. One must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. --Albert Einstein

Faith and Doubt

...A dialogue between the faith-full and the doubt-full...

Don't tell God how Big your storm is, tell the Storm how Big your God is.

“Faith isn't believing without proof – it's trusting without reservation.” William Sloane Coffin

"By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith." George MacDonald

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. --Blaise Pascal

Faith...comes only when the outward fact penetrates to the inner heart of man and takes possession of him there -- and this is the work of the Spirit.-- George Hendry

Faith, like sight is nothing apart from God. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside, and see whether you have sight as to look inside to discover whether you have faith.—Hannah Whitall Smith

When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand books of scripture are not enough. When you have realized understanding; even one word is too much. --Fen. Yang.

For those with faith, no explanation is necessary. For those without, no explanation is possible. –Thomas Aquinas

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations. --Elton Trueblood

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. --Blaise Pascal

Seeking to know is only too often learning to doubt. –Antionette du Liger de la Garde Deshoulieres

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.—Miguel de Unamuno

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.-- Fyodor Dostoyevski

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind. --Saint Bernard

The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain.-- Bertrand Russell

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. --H. L. Mencken

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. --Paul Tillich

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. – Voltaire

Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way. --Hosea Ballou

Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant. --- Martin Luther