Howard Thurman Quotes

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

Follow the grain in your own wood.

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

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

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.

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.

A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.

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.

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.

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.

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?’

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

Growth always involves the risk of failure.

He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.