Legacy Youth Ministry Resources

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Neighbor as Holy

Next to the Blessed Sacrament, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. ? C.S. Lewis

Being Truly Christian

We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule. The Negro and the Constitution (Martin Luther King, in The Cornellian, May 1944)

Earthly and Heavenly Fathers

It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because I grew up in a family where love was central and where lovely relationships were ever present. An Autobiography of Religious Development (Martin Luther King, Jr., Nov. 1950 essay)

On Loving the White Man

My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him. An Autobiography of Religious Development (Martin Luther King, Jr., Nov. 1950 essay)

Little, Nameless Acts of Kindness

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ---William Wordsworth

Admiring Kindness

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. -- Abraham Heschel

Incredible Importance of Kindness

?...Ultimately we must heed the advice of Henry James. When asked by his nephew what he ought to do in life, James replied, ?Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.? -- Robert Coles, Time, 1/20/97(The Moral Intelligence of Children)

Mother Teresa on Loving Until It Hurts

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -? Mother Teresa

Seeing People as God Sees Them

To love a person means to see him as God intended him to be. -- Dostoevsky

On Love and Power Topic

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. -- Emmett Fox

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