“Agape [i.e., God-originated love] is not a weak, passive love. It is love in action. Agape is love seeking to preserve and create
community…. The Holy Spirit is the continuing community creating reality that
moves through history. He who works
against community is working against the whole of creation…. In the final
analysis, agape means a recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated….
Whether we call it an unconscious process, an impersonal Brahman, or a Personal
Being of matchless power and infinite love, there is a creative force in this
universe that works to bring the disconnected aspects of reality into a
harmonious whole.”— American civil-rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize
laureate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (1958)
(The image accompanying this post shows Dr. King receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.)
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