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• 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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  Men, Order, Use

  Howard Thurman (1965). “The luminous darkness: a personal interpretation of the anatomy of segregation and the ground of hope”

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• 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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  Men, Order, Epithet

  Howard Thurman (2014). “A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life”, p.143, Beacon Press

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• Ask yourself what makes you come alive.

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  Inspirational Life, Self Esteem, Live Life

  "Oprah Gives Inspiring Commencement Speech to Harvard" by Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. May, 31, 2013.

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• 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.

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  Mean, Reality, Overcoming

  Howard Thurman (2014). “Meditations of the Heart”, p.54, Beacon Press

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• To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door.

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  Love, Heart, Love Is

  Howard Thurman (2014). “A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life”, p.184, Beacon Press

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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.

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  Children, Heart, Men

  Howard Thurman (2006). “Howard Thurman: Essential Writings”

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• 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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  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Howard Thurman (2006). “Howard Thurman: Essential Writings”

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• A bigot is a person who makes an idol of his commitments.

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  Commitment, Idols, Discipline

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• What the world need is people who have come alive.

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  People, Needs, Alive

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• 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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  Mean, Commitment, Yield

  Howard Thurman (1963). “Disciplines of the spirit”, Friends United Pr

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• He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.

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  Destruction

  Howard Thurman (2012). “Jesus and the Disinherited”, p.51, Beacon Press

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• A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.

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  Dream, Hope, New Horizons

  Howard Thurman (1963). “Disciplines of the spirit”, Friends United Pr

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• Christmas is waiting to be born: in you, in me, in all mankind.

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  Waiting, Born, Mankind

  Howard Thurman (2006). “Howard Thurman: Essential Writings”

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• At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.

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  Life, Determination, Purposefulness

  Howard Thurman (1963). “Disciplines of the spirit”, Friends United Pr

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• 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.

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  Nature, Twilight, Dark

  Howard Thurman (1985). “The Mood of Christmas”

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• And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.

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  Adventure, Stories, Bears

  Howard Thurman (1981). “With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman”, p.291, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.

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  Moments, Resolve

  Howard Thurman (2014). “Meditations of the Heart”, p.210, Beacon Press

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• Christmas is a mood, a quality, a symbol. It is never merely a fact.

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  Christmas, Quality, Facts

  Howard Thurman (1956). “The Growing Edge 1”

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• The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a naked memory, an etched countenance, a whisper in the dark, a golden glow these and much more are the woven fabric of the time I have lived.

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  Memories, Dark, Years

  Howard Thurman (1981). “With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman”, p.291, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life wears down the edges of the mind.

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  Mind, Edges

  Howard Thurman (2006). “Howard Thurman: Essential Writings”

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• 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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  Heart, Men, Secret

  Howard Thurman (1981). “With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman”, p.291, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Perfect love is long delayed.

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  Love Is, Long, Perfect

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• There were long stretches where each of us was engaged in a private world of rapidly shifting vignettes. Always I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of human beings ebbing and flowing like the tides of the sea.

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  Sea, Numbers, Long

  Howard Thurman (1981). “With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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