58 Thought-Provoking Quotes By Howard Thurman For The Theologians
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.
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Often, to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one's own situation so as not to be overcome by them.
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
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.
If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection.
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.
He recognized with authentic realism that anyone who permits another to determine the quality of his inner life gives into the hands of the other the keys to his destiny.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
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.
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.
Keep alive the dream; for as long as a man has a dream in his heart, he cannot lose the significance of living.
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.
What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.
There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself.
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.
Keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.
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.
Growth always involves the risk of failure.
Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.
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
Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.
There is a certain grandeur and nobility in administering to another’s need out of one’s fullness and plenty.
To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door.
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.
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.
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?'
Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.
Ask what makes you come alive and go do it.
There is a certain grandeur and nobility in administering to another’s need out of one’s fullness and plenty. One
