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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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“Prayer is a form of communication between God and man and man and God... I am always impressed by the fact that it is recorded that the only thing that the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to do was to pray.”

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Author:Howard Thurman

“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.”

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Book:Howard Thurman: Essential Writings

Source: Howard Thurman: Essential Writings

“The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste.”

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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

“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.”

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Book:With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman

Source: With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of 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.”

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Book:Howard Thurman: Essential Writings

Source: Howard Thurman: Essential Writings

“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.”

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Book:Disciplines of the spirit

Source: Disciplines of the spirit

“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.”

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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

“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.”

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Book:The luminous darkness: a personal interpretation of the anatomy of segregation and the ground of hope

Source: The luminous darkness: a personal interpretation of the anatomy of segregation and the ground of hope

“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 or causes them to anticipate a spirit which is yet in the making. In a moment of dedication they are given wisdom and courage to dare a deed that challenges and to kindle a hope that inspires.”

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Author:Howard Thurman

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

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