25 Love And Prayer Howard Thurman Quotes For Christmas
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Howard Washington Thurman was a civil rights activist, novelist, philosopher, theologian, and educator from the United States. He was a key figure in numerous twentieth-century activist groups and organizations as a renowned religious person. Thurman’s radical nonviolent theology influenced and shaped a generation of civil rights workers, and he served as a crucial mentor to civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr.
Here are some amazing Howard Thurman quotes that will instill a feeling of love and devotion.
Howard Thurman Quotes Christmas
Thurman, an author and educator, wrote a number of books about Christianity, including Jesus and the Disinherited and others. ‘The Work of Christmas,’ Thurman wrote as a poem. He was one of the first to establish an inter-racial American church as a place of worship. Here are some Howard Thurman quotes on Christmas.
“Christmas is a mood, a quality, a symbol. It is never merely a fact.”
HOWARD THURMAN
“…Christmas is waiting to be born: In you, In me, in all mankind.”
HOWARD THURMAN
“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.”
HOWARD THURMAN
SOURCE : THE MOOD OF CHRISTMAS
Howard Thurman Quotes on Love
Thurman has tried to tell what true love is through his work. he preaches the idea of love being the most pious and pure feeling. Here are some of the Howard Thurman quotes on love.
“Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale …Love loves; this is its nature.”
HOWARD THURMAN
SOURCE : A STRANGE FREEDOM
“To love life truly is to be whole in all one’s parts, and to be whole in all one’s parts is to be free and unafraid.”
HOWARD THURMAN
“To love is to make one’s heart a swinging door.”
HOWARD THURMAN
SOURCE : A STRANGE FREEDOM
Howard Thurman Quotes on Prayer
Thurman was the valedictorian of Morehouse College in 1923. While still a student at Rochester Theological Seminary, he was ordained as a Baptist preacher at First Baptist Church in Roanoke, Virginia, in 1925. He was valedictorian of a class of twenty-nine students when he graduated from Rochester Theological Seminary in May 1926. Here are some Howard Thurman quotes on prayer.
“Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind…”
HOWARD THURMAN
“They who seek God with all their hearts must, however, someday on their way meet Jesus.”
HOWARD THURMAN
“A prayer is a form of communication between God and man and man and God…”
HOWARD THURMAN
SOURCE : DISCIPLINES OF THE SPIRIT
“The movement of the spirit of God in the hearts of man often calls them to act against the spirit of their times or causes them to anticipate a spirit which is yet in the making.”
HOWARD THURMAN
More Howard Thurman Quotes
Thurman traveled widely, leading Christian missions and interacting with influential people around the world. In 1953, Thurman was called to Boston University, where he served as the dean of Marsh Chapel from 1953 to 1965. He was also well-known and engaged in the Boston community, where he inspired a number of influential figures. Here are some more 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 people who have come alive.”
HOWARD THURMAN
“Growth always involves the risk of failure.”
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
“Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.”
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
“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.”
HOWARD THURMAN
“Ask yourself what makes you come alive.”
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
“A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.”
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
Thurman was named one of the 50 most influential African-Americans in history by Ebony Magazine. He was also named one of the top twelve religious leaders in the United States by Life magazine in 1953. Which of these Howard Thurman quotes left a deep impact on your mind?
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