43 Quotes by Ralph W. Sockman

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

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    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.

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    In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together.

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    True 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 makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

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    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.

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    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 someplace.

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