“When you rise to love on this level, you love men not because you like them, not because their ways appeal to you, not because they have any particular meaning to you at the moment, but you love them because God loves them.”
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Source: Keep Moving from This Mountain (1960)
About this quote
In Keep Moving from This Mountain (1960), King uses a contrast between competing moral choices to examine love, with attention to level, appeal, particular. The practical center is the relationship between spirituality and moment and loves, giving readers a specific lens for judgment and action.
When to use it
- A community organizer builds a meeting around level before participants choose one measurable action related to love.
- A teacher pairs the passage from Keep Moving from This Mountain (1960) with a primary-source exercise about spirituality and public responsibility.
- A team leader uses the tension between appeal and loves to discuss conduct under pressure.