The Best Howard Thurman quotes

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

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

Don´t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have become alive. — Howard Thurman

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

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?’ — Howard Thurman

Ask yourself what makes you come alive. — Howard Thurman

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

What 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 the heart of the mystery. — Howard Thurman

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. — Howard Thurman

What the world need is people who have come alive. — Howard Thurman

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. — Howard Thurman

Follow the grain in your own wood. — Howard Thurman

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. — Howard Thurman

Life wears down the edges of the mind. — Howard Thurman

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. — Howard Thurman

Keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve. — Howard Thurman

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

To love is to make of one’s heart a swinging door. — Howard Thurman

Perfect love is long delayed. — Howard Thurman

He recognized with authentic realism that anyone who permits another to determine the quality of his inner life gives into the hands of the other the keys to his destiny. — Howard Thurman

Whether i’m black, white, presbyterian, baptist, buddhist, hindu, muslim––in the presence of god all of these categories by which we relate to each other fade away. — Howard Thurman

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

Keep alive the dream; for as long as a man has a dream in his heart, he cannot lose the significance of living. — Howard Thurman

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 an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies. — Howard Thurman

He who fears is literally delivered to destruction. — Howard Thurman

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. — Howard Thurman

Of all weapons, love is the most deadly and devastating, and few there be who dare trust their fate in its hands. — Howard Thurman

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

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. — Howard Thurman

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

In the stillness of quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair. — Howard Thurman

There 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. — Howard Thurman

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. — Howard Thurman

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. — Howard Thurman

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