Ralph W. Sockman

“Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The workshop of character is every-day life.”

“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.”

“A man's character is not judged after he is defeated, but by the way he rises after a fall.”

“We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.”

“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.”

“Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.”

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.”

“The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.”

“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.”

“One of the profoundest of all needs is the need to be needed.”

“Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest.”

“To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.”

“A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.”

“If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.”

“The present is the ever-moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”