Ralph W. Sockman
Ralph W. Sockman
Ralph Washington Sockmanwas the senior pastor of Christ Churchin 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...
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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.
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.
Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.