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 Washington Sockman
Topics: Service
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 Washington Sockman
Topics: Humility, Respect, Self Respect
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
—Ralph Washington Sockman
Topics: Crises
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
—Ralph Washington Sockman
Topics: Tolerance, Prejudice, Courage
In all living there is a certain narrowness of application which leads to breadth and power. We have to concentrate on a thing in order to master it. Then we must be broad enough not to be narrowed by our specialties.
—Ralph Washington Sockman
Topics: Knowledge
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
—Ralph Washington Sockman
Topics: Victory, Defeat
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 Washington Sockman
Topics: Goodness, Habits, Habit
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 Washington Sockman
Topics: Christmas
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 Washington Sockman
Topics: Truth
In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together.
—Ralph Washington Sockman
Topics: Prejudice
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
—Ralph Washington Sockman
Topics: Graduation, Knowledge, Discovery, Goals, Wonder
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Edward McKendree Bounds American Methodist Clergyman
- Walter Reuther American Labor Leader
- Alexander Woollcott American Critic
- E. Stanley Jones American Methodist Priest
- Charles L. Allen American Methodist Minister
- Vince Lombardi, Jr. American Football Player, Coach
- Edward Everett Horton American Actor
- Richard Hofstadter American Historian
- B. H. Liddell Hart English Military Journalist, Historian
- George M. Humphrey American Lawyer
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