Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Ralph Washington Sockman (American United Methodist Pastor)

Ralph Washington Sockman (1889–1970) was the senior pastor of Christ Church in New York City, United States. He gained considerable prominence in the U.S. as the featured speaker on the weekly NBC radio program, National Radio Pulpit, which aired from 1928 to 1962, and as a writer of several best-selling books on the Christian life. Time Magazine reported in 1946 that Sockman’s National Radio Pulpit program received 4,000 letters weekly, making him “the number one Protestant radio pastor of the U.S. …rated by volume of fan mail”. Fifteen years later in 1961, Time said that Sockman was “generally acknowledged as the best Protestant preacher in the U.S.”.

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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

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