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Howard Thurman was an American author, theologian, and civil rights activist. His works primarily explored issues of race relations, spiritual growth, and human unity. Born in 1899, he passed away on April 10, 1981.

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“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, blood and cell, go slowly down to death,Where fear companions each day's life,And Perfect Love seems long delayed.CHRISTMAS IS WAITING TO BE BORN:In you, in me, in all mankind.”

Ifs Men Mind Heart Children Long Seems Age Waiting Born Perfect Blood Mankind Cold Edges Bones Cells Each Day Companion Old Man Refugee Deliverance Delayed Perfect Love

Book:Howard Thurman: Essential Writings

Source: Howard Thurman: Essential Writings

“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. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Ends Inspiration Waiting Sound Awareness Listening Mindfulness Hearing Spending Guides Genuine Strings Pulling Through The Eyes Listen To Yourself Genuineness

Author: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.”

Ifs Knows Men Order Can Do Loses Temper Equilibrium Subjection Epithet

Book:A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life

Source: A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life

“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.”

Ifs Light Dies Nature Dark Too Much Fades Twilight Pauses Living Things

Book:The Mood of Christmas

Source: The Mood of Christmas

“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.”

Ifs Giving Heart Quiet Despair Weakness Stillness

Book:The Mood of Christmas

Source: The Mood of Christmas

About the Author

Born: 1899
Died: April 10, 1981
Known for: Author
Quotes: 54

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Meditations of the HeartRelated source material

A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public LifeRelated source material

Howard Thurman: Essential WritingsRelated source material

Disciplines of the spiritRelated source material

Jesus and the DisinheritedRelated source material

With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard ThurmanRelated source material

The Mood of ChristmasRelated source material

Deep Is the HungerRelated source material

The Creative EncounterRelated source material

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