Howard ThurmanI 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 peac… ▶361HopeLifeLove
Howard ThurmanDuring times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. ✨ Howard Thurman (2012). Jesus and the Disinherit… ▶361Time
Howard ThurmanAsk yourself what makes you come alive. ✨ Oprah Gives Inspiring Commencement Speech to Harvard by Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. May, 31, 2013.373Life
Howard ThurmanDon'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 alive364HumanityLife
Howard ThurmanCommitment 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 whet… ▶301DeathThought
Howard ThurmanWhat 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 t… ▶334LifeLove
Howard ThurmanThere 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?'345Life
Howard ThurmanTwilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not. ✨ Howard Thurman (… ▶291DeathLifeTime
Howard ThurmanLove has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature. ✨ Howard Thurman (2014). A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Relig… ▶303LifeLove
Howard ThurmanAnd this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of l… ▶306HumanityLifeLove
Howard ThurmanOften, to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one's own situation so as not to be overcome by them. ✨ Howard Thurman (2014). Meditations of the Heart, p.… ▶263Love
Howard ThurmanIn 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 (1985). The… ▶242HopeLove
Howard ThurmanHe who fears is literally delivered to destruction. ✨ Howard Thurman (2012). Jesus and the Disinherited, p.51, Beacon Press231Thought
Howard ThurmanThe measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place. ✨ Howard Thurman (1965). T… ▶232Hope
Howard ThurmanFate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials. ✨ Howard Thurman (2006). Howard Th… ▶3110Life
Howard ThurmanIt 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 go… ▶3110LifePolitics
Howard ThurmanThere 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, yo… ▶223LifeTruth
Howard ThurmanA dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope. ✨ Howard Thurman (1963). Disciplines of the spirit, Friends United Pr256Hope
Howard ThurmanAt the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live. ✨ Howard Thurman (1963). Disciplines of the spirit, Friends United Pr2910Life
Howard ThurmanGrowth always involves the risk of failure. ✨ Howard Thurman (1963). Disciplines of the spirit, Friends United Pr257Truth
Howard ThurmanIn 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 (2014). … ▶202LoveReadingTime
Howard ThurmanFollow the grain in your own wood.259Love
Howard ThurmanDo not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you. ✨ Howard Thurman Deep Is the Hunger, Ravenio Books226PoliticsReading
Howard ThurmanA bigot is a person who makes an idol of his commitments.259Politics
Howard ThurmanThe years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a naked memory, an etched countenance, a whisper in the… ▶205LoveTime
Howard ThurmanChristmas is a mood, a quality, a symbol. It is never merely a fact. ✨ Howard Thurman (1956). The Growing Edge 1172Truth
Howard ThurmanThere 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.173Life
Howard ThurmanCommunity cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.228Humanity
Howard ThurmanWhat the world need is people who have come alive.207HumanityLife
Howard Thurmankeep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve. ✨ Howard Thurman (2014). Meditations of the Heart, p.210, Beacon Press186LoveTime
