With Head and Heart Quotes

“I was convinced there was no more crucial problem for the believer than this—that a way be found by which his religious faith could keep him related to the ground of his security as a person. Thus, to be Christian, a man would not be required to stretch himself out of shape to conform to the demands of his religious faith; rather, his faith should make it possible for him to come to himself whole, in an inclusive and integrated manner, one that would not be possible without this spiritual orientation.”
― Howard Thurman, With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman

“In our tiny neighborhood within Waycross, we were what today is called an extended family. The children were under the general watch and care of all the adults. If we were asked to do an errand by any of the older members, it was not necessary for us to get permission from our parents. Reprimands were also freely given to the children by all the adults. Corporal punishment, however, was the exclusive prerogative of one’s own parents. My father’s death was only one of the many experiences I recall that bore the aura of caring of all, the sharing of all, during times of illness or suffering. The sick were cared for at home, for no hospitals were open to us other than the “pesthouse” on the outskirts of town, where smallpox victims were isolated. In every aspect of the common life, there was the sense of shared responsibility. Even the fast line between Baptist and Methodist yielded at this point.”
― Howard Thurman, With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman

“The quiet, even the danger, of the woods provided my rather lonely spirit with a sense of belonging that did not depend on human relationships.”
― Howard Thurman, With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman

“was a father, a strange and exciting experience. In the conception and physical birth of a child, the man is an outsider, the instrument of the creative process of life itself, but never one with it. Only a woman becomes a part of the experience of creation; only she sees the perimeter of the self fade into the life force and reappear, and again fade and reappear. She knows a secret that the father can never quite experience.”
― Howard Thurman, With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman