Sojourners Quotes

• 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.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Inspirational, Life, God

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Jun 06, 2011

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• 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.

  Eric Thomas

  Mother, Kings, Rich Life

  "Daily Word: Happy Holidays!! (You Have to Want Success As Bad As You Want To Breathe!!)". Interview with Ash Cash, allhiphop.com. December 25, 2012.

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• We're all travelers, all sojourners.

  Max Lucado

  Traveler

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.

  Annie Dillard

  Vagabonds, Fugitive, Seeking

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

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• 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.

  Myles Munroe

  Daughter, Jesus, Kings

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

  Sojourner Truth

  Hearing, Birth, Obliged

  "Ain't I A Woman?". Sojourner Truth's speech at the Women's Rights Convention at Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio, www.nps.gov. May 29, 1851.

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• 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.

  William Wordsworth

  Grateful, Blessing, Cities

  1799-1805 The Prelude, bk.1, l.1-9 (published 1850).

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• 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.

  Annie Dillard

  Home, Garden, Thinking

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.109, Canongate Books

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• 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.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Marriage, Earth

  Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.147, Destiny Image Publishers

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• 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.

  Stephen King

  Land, Needs, Hawks

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Frederick Douglass

  Father, Home, Land

  Frederick Douglass (2008). “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass”, p.172, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Bad Day, Thinking, Trying

  "The Lenny Interview: Marian Wright Edelman". Interview with Jurnee Smollett-bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• 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.

  Nell Irvin Painter

  Beautiful, Art, Book

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• 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.

  Thomas Cahill

  Mother, Children, Our World

  Thomas Cahill (2010). “The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels”, p.252, Anchor

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• 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.'

  Sara Paretsky

  Sweet, Book, Past

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

  Edwin Muir

  Patience, Time, Kindness

  1949 The Labyrinth,'The Good Town'.

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• 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.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dream, History, African American

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• 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.

  Sojourner Truth

  Land, Names, Two

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• 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.

  Ethel Waters

  Success, Thinking, Play

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