Howard Thurman Quotes

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• Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

  Howard Thurman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.

  Howard Thurman

  Inspirational, Life, Waiting

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• In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

  Howard Thurman

  Heart, Giving, Despair

  Howard Thurman (1985). “The Mood of Christmas”

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• When the song of the angels is stilled,
  When the star in the sky is gone,
  When the kings and princes are home,
  When the shepherds are back with their flock,
  The work of Christmas begins:
  ...To find the lost,
  To heal the broken,
  To feed the hungry,
  To release the prisoner,
  To rebuild the nations,
  To bring peace among brothers,
  To make music in the heart.

  Howard Thurman

  Christmas, Song, Brother

  Howard Thurman (2006). “Howard Thurman: Essential Writings”

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• The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge.

  Howard Thurman

  Years, Decision, Challenges

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• The movement of the Spirit of God in the hearts of men and women often calls them to act against the spirit of their times or causes them to anticipate a spirit which is yet in the making. In a moment of dedication they are given wisdom and courage to dare a deed that challenges and to kindle a hope that inspires.

  Howard Thurman

  Heart, Men, Dedication

  "Footprints of a Dream : The Story of the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples" by Howard Thurman, (p. 7), 1959.

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• Listen to the long stillness:
  New life is stirring
  New dreams are on the wing
  New hopes are being readied:
  Humankind is fashioning a new heart
  Humankind is forging a new mind
  God is at work.
  This is the season of Promise

  Howard Thurman

  Dream, Heart, Wings

  Howard Thurman (1985). “The Mood of Christmas”

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• Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.

  Howard Thurman

  May, Limits, Silent

  Howard Thurman “Deep Is the Hunger”, Ravenio Books

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• I will light candles this Christmas, Candles of joy, despite all sadness, Candles of hope where despair keeps watch. Candles of courage where fear is ever present, Candles of peace for tempest-tossed days, Candles of grace to ease heavy burdens. Candles of love to inspire all my living, Candles that will burn all the year long.

  Howard Thurman

  Sadness, Light, Years

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• There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'

  Howard Thurman

  Two, Firsts, Asks

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• Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.

  Howard Thurman

  Life, Merit, Marriage Love

  Howard Thurman (2014). “A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life”, p.181, Beacon Press

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• Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.

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  Stress, Hands, Joy

  Howard Thurman (2014). “Meditations of the Heart”, p.211, Beacon Press

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• There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground river, flowing far beneath the shifting events of one's experience, keeping alive a thousand little springs of action.

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  Courage, Spring, Rivers

  Howard Thurman (2014). “Meditations of the Heart”, p.52, Beacon Press

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• Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.

  Howard Thurman

  Brother, Long, Community

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• In whatever sense this year is a new year for you, may the moment find you eager and unafraid, ready to take it by the hand with joy and gratitude.

  Howard Thurman

  New Year, Gratitude, Hands

  Howard Thurman (2014). “Meditations of the Heart”, p.139, Beacon Press

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• Prayer is a form of communication between God and man and man and God... I am always impressed by the fact that it is recorded that the only thing that the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to do was to pray.

  Howard Thurman

  Jesus, Prayer, Communication

  "Disciplines of the Spirit". Book by Howard Thurman, 1977.

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• It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed-this, despite the gospel.

  Howard Thurman

  Christian, Strong, Powerful

  Howard Thurman (2014). “A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life”, p.145, Beacon Press

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• Growth always involves the risk of failure.

  Howard Thurman

  Risk, Growth

  Howard Thurman (1963). “Disciplines of the spirit”, Friends United Pr

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• There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Angel, Singing

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• Follow the grain in your own wood.

  Howard Thurman

  Woods, Grain

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• Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed life; and hatred was the great denial.

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  Jesus, Father, Hatred

  Howard Thurman (2012). “Jesus and the Disinherited”, p.88, Beacon Press

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• I say that creeds, dogmas, and theologies are inventions of the mind. It is the nature of the mind to make sense out of experience, to reduce the conglomerates of experience to units of comprehension which we call principles, or ideologies, or concepts. Religious experience is dynamic, fluid, effervescent, yeasty. But the mind can't handle these so it has to imprison religious experience in some way, get it bottled up. Then, when the experience quiets down, the mind draws a bead on it and extracts concepts, notions, dogmas, so that religious experience can make sense to the mind.

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  Religious, Mind, Way

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• Where refugees seek deliverance that never comesAnd the heart consumes itself as if it would live,Where children age before their timeAnd life wears down the edges of the mind,Where the old man sits with mind grown cold,While bones and sinew, blood and cell, go slowly down to death,Where fear companions each day's life,And Perfect Love seems long delayed.CHRISTMAS IS WAITING TO BE BORN:In you, in me, in all mankind.

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  Children, Heart, Men

  Howard Thurman (2006). “Howard Thurman: Essential Writings”

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• To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door.

  Howard Thurman

  Love, Heart, Love Is

  Howard Thurman (2014). “A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life”, p.184, Beacon Press

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• During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

  Howard Thurman

  Peace, War, Hatred

  Howard Thurman (2012). “Jesus and the Disinherited”, p.74, Beacon Press

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