Ralph W. Sockman Quotes

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

Respect, True, Self

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
Ralph W. Sockman

True, Debt, Lover

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
Ralph W. Sockman

Time, Crisis, Character

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

Courage, Tolerance, Test

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.
Ralph W. Sockman

Love, Self, Toward

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

Tomorrow, Regrets, Interest

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman

Knowledge, Wonder, Longer

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

God, Men, Service

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

Life, Good, Control

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

Long, Whatever, Show

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

Religion, Christmas, Art

The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
Ralph W. Sockman

Life, Loves, Roads

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
Ralph W. Sockman

Soul, Put, Measured

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

Real, Before, Stand

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