Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes about God

Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.

Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

God, Christian, Religious

Christianity affirms that at the heart of reality is a Heart, a loving Father who works through history for the salvation of His children. Man cannot save himself, for man is not the measure of all things and humanity is not God. Bound by the chains of his own sin and finiteness, man needs a Savior.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

God, Christian, Religious

Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

God, Fear, Science

Strength Through Love Ch. 13

I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, God

Address to sanitation workers, Memphis, Tenn., 3 Apr. 1968.

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, God

Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

Martin Luther King, Jr.

God, Spiritual, Children

Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963