It is utterly impossible for you to keep another from loving you. Underneath the surface of all the tension, something else is at work. You may keep alive in devious ways the fires of your bitter heart, but they cannot get through to me. You are powerless to do anything about it. Here is a mystery: If sweeping through the door of my heart there moves continually a genuine love for you, it by-passes all your hate and all your indifference and gets through to you at your center. This is one’s ultimate responsiblity, and it is not dependent upon whether the heart of another is kept open for him. This a man discovers when he is able to keep open the door of his heart. There is a profound ground of unity that is more pertinent and authentic than all the unilateral dimensions of our lives. It interested me first because of its vision for authentic unity between people and secondly because Andre Daley of the Lakeshore Ethnic Diversity Alliance recently encouraged me to use some of Thurman’s books in our discipleship curriculum. The following quote by Howard Thurman, an African American theologian, preacher, and quiet activist, came up on the Church of the Savior Inward/Outward e-mail today.
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