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Howard Thurman

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Also known as Howard Washington Thurman, Howard W. Thurman

American theologian, educator, and civil rights mentor (1899–1981)

Person · Open Library

Born
1900
Died
1981
Works
49

Top works

  • The experience of community
  • Apostles of sensitiveness
  • Deep river; reflections on the religious insight of certain of the Negro spirituals
  • The Greatest of these
  • Simmering on the calm presence and profound wisdom of Howard Thurman

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1994
Active to
1996

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
8
Total plays
42

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Quotes

  • 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.
  • 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."
  • Community cannot feed for long on itself; it can only flourish where always the boundaries are giving way to the coming of others from beyond them — unknown and undiscovered brothers.
  • 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.
  • Where refugees seek deliverance that never comes And the heart consumes itself as if it would live, Where children age before their time And 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.
  • When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone, When the kings and princes are home, When the shepherds are back with their flock, The work of Christmas begins: To find the lost, To heal the broken, To feed the hungry, To release the prisoner, To rebuild the nations, To bring peace among people, To make music in the heart.

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