"The belief that God will do everything for man is as untenable as the belief that man can do everything for himself. It, too, is based on a lack of faith. We must learn that to trust God with the expectation that he will do everything while we do nothing, is not faith, but superstition."
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Martin Luther King, Jr, (between July 1962 and March 1963), as quoted on The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr (2007), p. 552
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