Best Sojourners Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky. Whate'er its mission, the soft breeze can come To none more grateful than to me; escaped From the vast city, where I long had pined A discontented sojourner: now free, Free as a bird to settle where I will.”

Long Seems Joy Cities Half Sky Fans Fields Blessing Bird Conscious Grateful Green Missions Gentle Settling Cheeks Breeze Azure Green Fields Sojourners

Author:William Wordsworth

“I’m washed, I’m forgiven, I’m whole, and I’m healed. I’m cleansed and I’m glory bound. I am only a sojourner on the earth. I am but a pilgrim on this planet, on my way to perfection, and I don’t need anybody to tell me who I am, because I know who I am. I am a child of the King, a son (or daughter) of God, born again through Jesus Christ, bought with the price of His blood. I am a new creation, totally new, thoroughly loved and completely accepted as a child of my Father, precious in His sight.”

“We live in a society that says "You Gotta get yours" and I'm not suggesting that you don't handle your business but I want to show people... Gandhi gave, Mother Theresa gave, Martin Luther King gave, Rosa Parks gave, Sojourner Truth gave, and these people had a rich life! They may have not had a Rolls Royce, Range Rover, or lived in the best neighborhoods but they changed history forever and they changed lives forever and that's what I aim to do.”

“Throughout our world the cry of the poor so often goes unheard. The prophets harangued Israel and Judah unceasingly about the powerless and marginalized, the overlooked widows, orphans, and "sojourners in our midst," who are still with us today as single mothers, hungry children, and helpless immigrants, wraiths invisible in our prosperous societies.”

Source: The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels

“When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders urging me to speech. I hear Patrick Henry cry to the Burgsses, 'Is Life so dear, or Peace so sweet, to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?' I hear Sojourner Truth tell me that the hand that rocks the cradle can also rock the boat, and William Lloyd Garrison say, 'I am in earnest, I will not be silenced.'”

World Feels Book Hands Past Rocks Cry Sweet Speech Slavery Library Dear Ghost Shoulders Boat Chains Earnest Cradle Sojourners

Author:Sara Paretsky

“Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up.”

Thinking Trying Get Up Necks Bad Day Having A Bad Day Sojourners

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“We're all travelers, all sojourners.”

Traveler Sojourners

Author:Max Lucado

“I have come to believe that we do not walk alone in this life. There are others, fellow sojourners, whose journeys are interwoven with ours in seemingly random patterns, yet, in the end, have been carefully placed to reveal a remarkable tapestry. I believe God is the weaver at that loom.”

“You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.”

Needs Said Land They Said Hawks Without Friends Sojourners

Book:The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger

Source: The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger

“I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.”

Seeking Fugitive Vagabonds Sojourners

Book:The Annie Dillard reader

Source: The Annie Dillard reader

“I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.”

Thinking Hard Home Land Planets Garden Stones Dear Familiar Exile Sojourners

Book:Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

“Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.”

Light Time Kindness Subjects Patience Faults Passing Passings Serving Courtesy Sojourners Kindness And Patience

Author:Edwin Muir

“When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wasn't going to keep nothing of Egypt on me, an' so I went to the Lord an' asked him to give me a new name. And he gave me Sojourner because I was to travel up and down the land showing the people their sins and bein' a sign unto them. I told the Lord I wanted two names 'cause everybody else had two, and the Lord gave me Truth, because I was to declare the truth to the people.”

People Giving Two Wanted House Names Left Causes Justice Sin Behinds Lord Land Truth Is Diversity Give Me Social Justice Egypt Bondage Up And Down Sojourners

Author:Sojourner Truth

“I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.”

Knows I Can Dream History Bears Fruit Seeds African American American History Walkers Living The Dream Sojourners

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I'm washed, I'm forgiven, I'm whole, and I'm healed. I'm cleansed and I'm glory bound. I am only a sojourner on the earth.”

Whole Earth Marriage Relationship Glory Bounds Forgiven Healed Sojourners

Book:The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage

Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage

“Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.”

Birth Hearing Obliged Sojourners

Author:Sojourner Truth

“Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.”

Thinking Play Shows Might Success Depends Excited Reassuring Sojourners

Author:Ethel Waters

“I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in the land of my birth. I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.”

Home Father Land Childhood Birth Racism Stranger Protection Thee Outcast Outlaw Sojourners

Book:The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

Source: The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

“Grigsby's marvelous exploration-a deep, wide, and beautiful inquiry into Sojourner Truth's use of technology-features more of her photographs than have ever been collected before. Among its many insights, I especially relished the analysis of Truth's illiteracy. Enduring Truths is art history with a wide-ranging concept of history left in. A terrific book, and one we've needed for a long time.”