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.
Ralph Washington SockmanLet us not bankrupt our today's by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
Ralph Washington SockmanThe roots of responsibility run out to the ends of the earth and we can no more isolate our consciences from world issues than we can fence off our oyster beds from the tides of the ocean.
Ralph Washington SockmanWhen 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 SockmanFaced with the immensity of the universe, Job realized that there are limits to man's rationalizing, that we cannot find where the cloud of sorrow starts, that all our boasted knowledge is but an island in the vast ocean of mystery, and as the island of knowledge grows larger, the shore line of mystery becomes longer. At the end of his wits, he surrendered in trust to a Higher Wisdom.
Ralph Washington Sockman