Ralph Washington SockmanNothing is so strong as gentleness.351Sadness
Ralph Washington SockmanHabit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel like it. We read the Bible when we feel like it. Leaving our religious … ▶364DeathLifeReading
Ralph Washington SockmanOur growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest.377Life
Ralph Washington SockmanA true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves ✨ Ralph Washington Sockman (1958). Mans̓ First Love: The Great Commandment304LoveTruth
Ralph Washington SockmanGentleness is a divine trait: nothing is so divine as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength.282Death
Ralph Washington SockmanOur love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek Him or His gifts. ✨ Ralph Washington Sockman (1958). Mans̓ First Love: The Great Commandment338Love
Ralph Washington SockmanWhen we count on chance in lieu of law and labor, we weaken our healthy attitudes toward work, our fellow men and our God.251Politics
Ralph Washington SockmanTrue 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 make… ▶298ThoughtTruth
Ralph Washington SockmanThe test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.266Hope
Ralph Washington SockmanGood 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 diss… ▶267LifeLove
Ralph Washington SockmanThe hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.234Love
Ralph Washington SockmanA 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 Washington Sockman (1958). Mans̓ First Love: T… ▶279Love
Ralph Washington SockmanBalance the bad news of life with the good news of Christ.268Life
Ralph Washington SockmanThe roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down, half-finished loves.214LifeLove
Ralph Washington SockmanBe careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.193HopeTime
Ralph Washington SockmanWhen the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.227Love
Ralph Washington SockmanIn 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 … ▶152LifePoliticsReading
Ralph Washington SockmanAs 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 n… ▶174HopePoliticsTime
Ralph Washington SockmanThe 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.229Time
Ralph Washington SockmanLet us not bankrupt our today's by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.165Life
Ralph Washington SockmanThe larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.209Death
Ralph Washington SockmanOur 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 a… ▶189DeathLife
Ralph Washington SockmanTrue liberty consists not merely in being free from something, but also in being free for something.145Truth
