One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

God is a blank sheet upon which nothing is found but what you yourself have written.

The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring low prodigious mountains of evil. The ringing testimony of the Christian faith is that God is able.

We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'

We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

It is cheering to note that [Martin] Luther (1524) did not see why schools should not be fun as well: "Now since the young must leap and jump, or have something to do, because they have a natural desire for it which should not be restrained (for it is not well to check them in everything) why should we not provide for them such schools, and lay before them such studies?

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.