I just heard this quote as I was listening to the radio, and was so moved by it that I figured I had to post it. I think it is one of the most concrete indictments of our passionless, me-first, culture that I have ever heard. But what else would you have expected from one of the greatest public speakers to ever have lived?
“If man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Most people are so consumed with the rat race of life that they never let themselves be consumed by a passion that they would be willing to die for. Oh what a waste to stumble through life with blinders on to anything of real meaning and value. There’s no life in that. And to say it another way…
“Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.”
- William Wallace (Mel Gibson) from the movie, Braveheart.
May it never be that we would live life without passion. And may we live always as people who are truly alive, not just people who are getting by trudging on toward death. Let’s live like there is something meaningful to live for and be so passionate about its value that we would be willing to die for it.
