The hope of free people in a frightened world is the values which people put ahead of inventions when their backs are to the wall. These values are beauty, truth, goodness and having a faith, all of which are bombproof.
Ralph Washington SockmanIn all living there is a certain narrowness of application which leads to breadth and power. We have to concent on a thing in order to master it. Then we must be broad enough not to be narrowed by our specialties.
Ralph Washington SockmanAdvertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste.
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