Sockman Quotes & Sayings

Our love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek Him or His gifts. — Ralph Washington Sockman

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

Our ground of hope is that God does not weary of mankind. — Ralph Washington Sockman

Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste. — Ralph Washington Sockman

Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest. — Ralph W. Sockman

Hoist the sails of your own spirit to catch the winds of God. — Ralph Washington Sockman

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

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

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

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

There are parts of a ship which taken by themselves would sink. The engine would sink. The propeller would sink. But when the parts of a ship are built together, they float. So with the events of my life. Some have been tragic. Some have been happy. But when they are built together, they form a craft that floats and is going places. And I am comforted. — Ralph Washington Sockman

The forgiveness of the world can only be accomplished by the judgment of the world. — Ralph Washington Sockman

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength. — Ralph W. Sockman

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

The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable. — Ralph Washington Sockman

Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength. — Ralph W. Sockman

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

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

Balance the bad news of life with the good news of Christ. — Ralph Washington Sockman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Ralph Washington Sockman

In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together. — Ralph Washington Sockman

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

Give the best you have to the highest you know ... and do it now. — Ralph Washington Sockman

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

What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you. — Ralph Washington Sockman

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

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