Shaped Notes Quotes

“Like many people of color, discrimination was, and often still is, a part of my daily life. And I, like others, will always confront such issues with the love and compassion my faith demands. It is my hope that those of us who are called by the name of Christ will be in the forefront of stamping out the notion that no person, regardless of race, creed or color, is better than another.”
― Larnelle Harris, Shaped Notes: How Ordinary People with Extraordinary Gifts Influenced My Life and Career

“Love calls on you to do things you don't want to do sometimes. it calls on you to care for people you wouldn't typically want to care for. It causes you to go fishing with folks you don't want to be around.”
― Larnelle Harris, Shaped Notes: How Ordinary People with Extraordinary Gifts Influenced My Life and Career

“Americans can't really understand what it's like to have a Bible shortage—to worship in "underground" churches, sharing sections you've carefully torn from the original so everybody could have scripture to take home and study.”
― Larnelle Harris, Shaped Notes: How Ordinary People with Extraordinary Gifts Influenced My Life and Career

“Being with people of different races or ethnicities is not an occasion to build a wall, but it affords us the opportunity to learn other cultures and how someone else thinks or feels. When we go through that process, we usually find we are more alike than we ever were different.”
― Larnelle Harris, Shaped Notes: How Ordinary People with Extraordinary Gifts Influenced My Life and Career

“Love calls on you to do things you don't want to do sometimes. it calls on you to care for people you wouldn't typically want to care for. it cause you to go fishing with folks you don't want to be around.”
― Larnelle Harris, Shaped Notes: How Ordinary People with Extraordinary Gifts Influenced My Life and Career

“I have always prayed, ‘God, put something in my heart and then teach me how to give it away.’ And as long as He sees fit to do that, I will fulfill my end of the bargain.”
― Larnelle Harris, Shaped Notes: How Ordinary People with Extraordinary Gifts Influenced My Life and Career