Top 31 Sockman Quotes
#1. The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph W. Sockman
#3. Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
Ralph W. Sockman
#4. A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
Ralph W. Sockman
#5. True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
Ralph W. Sockman
#9. 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
#11. When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
Ralph W. Sockman
#13. Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.
Ralph W. Sockman
#14. 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
#16. Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Ralph W. Sockman
#18. Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
Ralph W. Sockman
#19. Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste.
Ralph Washington Sockman
#21. A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
Ralph W. Sockman
#22. 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
#23. The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
Ralph W. Sockman
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
Ralph W. Sockman
#28. When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
Ralph W. Sockman
#29. Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
Ralph W. Sockman
#31. Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest.
Ralph W. Sockman
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