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Author: martin
Luther King JR.
Publisher: Augsburg
Fortress Publishers
Released Date:
May, 1981
Format:
Paperback
From
the
foreword
by
Coretta
Scott
King:
"If
there is
one book
Martin
Luther
King,
Jr. has
written
that
people
consistently
tell me
has
changed
their
lives,
it is
Strength
to Love.
I
believe
it is
because
this
book
best
explains
the
central
element
of
Martin
Luther
King,
Jr.'s
philosophy
of
nonviolence:
His
belief
in a
divine,
loving
presence
that
binds
all
life.
This
belief
was the
force
behind
all of
my
husband's
quests
to
eliminate
social
evil . .
. By
reaching
into and
beyond
ourselves
and
tapping
the
transcendent
moral
ethic of
love, we
shall
overcome
these
evils.
Love,
truth,
and the
courage
to do
what is
right
should
be our
own
guideposts
on this
lifelong
journey.
Martin
Luther
King,
Jr.
showed
us the
way; he
showed
us the
Dream --
and we
responded
with
full
hearts.
Martin
was an
optimist.
I am
too. I
do
believe
that one
day our
strength
to love
shall
bring
the
Dream to
fruition
and the
Beloved
Community
to
earth."
From
Chapter
Eleven,
page
107:
Our God
is able
Now unto
him that
is able
to keep
from
falling.
Jude 24
At the
center
of the
Christian
faith is
the
conviction
that in
the
universe
there is
a God of
power
who is
able to
do
exceedingly
abundant
things
in
nature
and in
history.
This
conviction
is
stressed
over and
over in
the Old
and the
New
Testaments.
Theologically,
this
affirmation
is
expressed
in the
doctrine
of the
omnipotence
of God.
The God
whom we
worship
is not
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.
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