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,… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
“...[A] strange necessity has been laid upon me to devote my life to the central concern that transcends the walls that divide and would… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
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… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
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… — Howard Thurman Copy Share
I will light candles this Christmas, Candles of joy, despite all sadness, Candles of hope where despair keeps watch. Candles of courage where fear… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
“It’s a wondrous thing, that a decision to act releases energy in the personality. For days on end a person may drift along without much energy. Having no particular sense of direction and having no will to change. Then, something happens to alter the pattern. It may be something very simple and inconsequential in itself. But it stabs awake, it… — Howard Thurman Copy Share
Dont ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live. — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
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… — Howard Thurman Copy Share
![“...[A] strange necessity has been laid upon me to devote my life to the central concern that transcends the walls that divide and would achieve in literal fact what is experienced as literal truth: human life is one and all men are members of one another. And this insight is spiritual and it is…” quote by Howard Thurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/889/howard-thurman-11976_hard-core_a-strange-necessity-has-been-laid-upon-m_37987.jpg)
