Howard Thurman Quotes

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• Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.
• A bigot is a person who makes an idol of his commitments.
• 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…
• 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…
• The 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…
• Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.
• Follow the grain in your own wood....
• Ask yourself what makes you come alive.
• He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.
• 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…
• At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.
• 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…
• A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.
• Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much…
• To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Growth always involves the risk of failure.

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