Ralph Washington Sockman Quotes

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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…
• Gentleness is a divine trait: nothing is so divine as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
• A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves
• Let us not bankrupt our today's by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
• Nothing is so strong as gentleness.
• True liberty consists not merely in being free from something, but also in being free for something.
• Habit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel like it. We…
• 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…
• When we count on chance in lieu of law and labor, we weaken our healthy attitudes toward work, our fellow men and our God.
• 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…
• 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…
• When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
• Balance the bad news of life with the good news of Christ.
• Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest.
• Our love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek Him or His gifts.
• In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together.
• 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…
• Love is the outreach of self toward completion.
• 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.
• 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.…

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