Ralph W. Sockman Quotations

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

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.

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.'

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.

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

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

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

Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.