In being realistic we do not always have to be pessimistic. Christ never blinked his eyes at bad things. But he never became so obsessed with human evil that he lost faith in man.
Ralph Washington SockmanTrue 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.
Ralph Washington SockmanWhen the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
Ralph Washington SockmanTrue liberty consists not merely in being free from something, but also in being free for something.
Ralph Washington Sockman