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Howard Thurman Quotes: 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.
         

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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In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.



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Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.



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Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.



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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.



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Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.



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Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.



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.

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.



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During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.





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