“Oh God, help us in our lives and in all of our attitudes, to work out this controlling force of love, this controlling power that can solve every problem that we confront in all areas.”
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Source: Loving Your Enemies (1957)
About this quote
In Loving Your Enemies (1957), King uses a collective appeal to examine love, with attention to lives, attitudes, controlling. The practical center is the relationship between compassion and confront and areas, giving readers a specific lens for judgment and action.
When to use it
- A community organizer builds a meeting around lives before participants choose one measurable action related to love.
- A teacher pairs the passage from Loving Your Enemies (1957) with a primary-source exercise about compassion and public responsibility.
- A team leader uses the tension between attitudes and areas to discuss conduct under pressure.