Ralph Washington Sockman Quotes

#1. Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste.

Ralph Washington Sockman

#2. Our ground of hope is that God does not weary of mankind.

Ralph Washington Sockman

#3. Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Paul Gauguin

#4. Balance the bad news of life with the good news of Christ.

Ralph Washington Sockman

#5. Our love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek Him or His gifts.

Ralph Washington Sockman

#6. The hope of free people in a frightened world is the values which people put ahead of inventions when their backs are to the wall. These values are beauty, truth, goodness and having a faith, all of which are bombproof.

Ralph Washington Sockman

#7. In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together.

Ralph Washington Sockman

#8. Hoist the sails of your own spirit to catch the winds of God.

Ralph Washington Sockman

#9. All our science and philosophy form only an island of knowledge surrounded by an ocean of mystery. The larger the island grows, the longer the shoreline where the known meets the unknown.

Ralph Washington Sockman

#10. Life is like a darkroom, says Kristijan. You never know who will screw you and how, or whom you will screw and how. But it is too exciting for you to just walk out.

Rujana Jeger

#11. What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you.

Ralph Washington Sockman

#12. When you look back on this moment months from now, don't forget the one word I'm about to say to you, Claire Deveraux. Foreplay.

Georgia Cates

#13. I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.

Matthew Rhys

#14. Give the best you have to the highest you know ... and do it now.

Ralph Washington Sockman

#15. Sons of a revolution fight for liberty. They give blood, flesh, limbs, their very lives. But daughters . . . we sacrifice our eternal souls.

Laura Kamoie

#16. The forgiveness of the world can only be accomplished by the judgment of the world.

Ralph Washington Sockman

#17. We seem to want mass production, but we must remember that men are individuals not to be satisfactorily dealt with in masses, and the making of men is more important than the production of things.

Ralph Washington Sockman

#18. Now we must put our heads together and suck national security.

Mohammed Hanif

#19. I meet these kids in the street and they're shaking. But I' saying, 'I'm honored to met you.' It makes me cry. It's beyond special

Noel Gallagher

#20. Tawakkul is having complete trust that Allah's plan is the best plan.

Yasmin Mogahed

#21. In being realistic we do not always have to be pessimistic. Christ never blinked his eyes at bad things. But he never became so obsessed with human evil that he lost faith in man.

Ralph Washington Sockman

#22. For all the glamour of living forever ... immortality is really just a long curse. Finite life is precious; it's fleeting and significant. But immortality ... immortality isn't living at all. It's a permanent existence void of meaning.

Chelsea Fine

#23. In all living there is a certain narrowness of application which leads to breadth and power. We have to concent on a thing in order to master it. Then we must be broad enough not to be narrowed by our specialties.

Ralph Washington Sockman

#24. The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.

Ralph Washington Sockman

#25. Only Loki was not a fighter. Only Loki stood at the sides and laughed, a laughter more deadly to the self-important gods than any sword or spear. No wonder they had chained him.

M.D. Lachlan