Ralph Washington Sockman Quotes
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Let us not bankrupt our today's by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves
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The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.
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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.
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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.
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Faced with the immensity of the universe, Job realized that there are limits to man's rationalizing, that we cannot find where the cloud of sorrow starts, that all our boasted knowledge is but an island in the vast ocean of mystery, and as the island of knowledge grows larger, the shore line of mystery becomes longer. At the end of his wits, he surrendered in trust to a Higher Wisdom.
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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.
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Balance the bad news of life with the good news of Christ.
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The roots of responsibility run out to the ends of the earth and we can no more isolate our consciences from world issues than we can fence off our oyster beds from the tides of the ocean.
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Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste.
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Our love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek Him or His gifts.
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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
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The test of our religion is whether it fits us to meet emergencies. A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you.
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Our Creator has put in us hungers that this earth can- not satisfy. We cannot be completely self-contained on earth. Physical sense cannot give us a full life, nor can knowledge alone. No life is full unless it is linked to some- thing that goes on after we are dead.... If we have nothing more to live for than just to get ahead in a competitive system, then democracy will go down before other philosophies.
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Nothing is so strong as gentleness.
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When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
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Gentleness is a divine trait: nothing is so divine as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
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True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us mindful of the nobility God meant us to have. Yet it makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
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As long as we can keep our international relations in the realm of conference rather than open conflict, we are giving truth more time to vindicate itself. And what we ourselves need is more faith in the power of truth.
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The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down, half-finished loves.
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When we count on chance in lieu of law and labor, we weaken our healthy attitudes toward work, our fellow men and our God.
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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.
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Hoist the sails of your own spirit to catch the winds of God.
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We cannot hoard life as we can money. When a person tries to be a miser of his health, he usually makes himself miserable. Mental talents, if buried and not used, tend to deteriorate. Whoever would save his memory by not using it will lose it.
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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.
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Give the best you have to the highest you know... and do it now.
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Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
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Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest.
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