Howard Thurman Quotes

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

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.

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

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?'

Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.

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.

Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.

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.

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.

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

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.

Follow the grain in your own wood.

At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.

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.

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.

Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself.

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

Ask yourself what makes you come alive.

What the world need is people who have come alive.

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 fast in a prescribed place.

A bigot is a person who makes an idol of his commitments.

keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.

Growth always involves the risk of failure.

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.

To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door.

He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.

Twilight - 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.

Christmas is waiting to be born: in you, in me, in all mankind.

Christmas is a mood, a quality, a symbol. It is never merely a fact.

Life wears down the edges of the mind.

Perfect love is long delayed.

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.