Quotes by Howard Thurman

Howard Thurman (1899–1981) — Theologe, Autor, Bürgerrechtler · Baptistisch (ökumenisch) · USA

Howard Thurman (1899–1981) war ein US-amerikanischer Theologe, baptistischer Universitätsprediger und Autor, der unter anderem in Washington, D.C., Boston und San Francisco wirkte. Er verband christliche Mystik mit der Idee des gewaltfreien Widerstands, gründete eine der ersten interkulturellen Gemeinden der USA und galt als geistlicher Mentor Martin Luther Kings Jr. Für Bibelleser heute eröffnet sein Ansatz eine Perspektive auf das Evangelium aus der Sicht gesellschaftlich Entrechteter und zeigt die Verbindung von innerer Kontemplation und sozialer Gerechtigkeit.

Era: The 20th Century

Recurring topics: Meaning & Identity, Service & Love of Neighbour, Ethical Questions, Courage & Strength, Suffering & the Question of God, Hope & Confidence, Relationships & Family, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit

Quotes by Howard Thurman

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Howard Thurman

Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed life; and hatred was the great denial.

Howard Thurman

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.

Howard Thurman

Fear is one of the persistent hounds of hell that dog the footsteps of the poor, the dispossessed, the disinherited.

Howard Thurman

The contradictions of life are not ultimate.

Howard Thurman

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.

Howard Thurman

A man's conviction that he is God's child automatically tends to shift the basis of his relationship with all his fellows.

Howard Thurman

There is a Spirit at work in life and in the hearts of men which is committed to overcoming the world.

Howard Thurman

The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence.

Howard Thurman

Every man is potentially every other man's neighbor.

Howard Thurman

Neighborliness is nonspatial; it is qualitative.

Howard Thurman

There are some things that are worse than death.

Howard Thurman

Sources: ebsco.com, episcopalvirginia.org, bc.edu

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