86 Quotes by Howard Thurman

Life wears down the edges of the mind.

Perfect love is long delayed.

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. There is a spirit in man and in the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste.

Ask yourself what makes you come alive.

It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed-this, despite the gospel.

Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.

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

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

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