Ralph W. Sockman Quotes
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
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The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
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But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
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I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.
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I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.
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Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim. The Past is for us; but the sole terms on which it can become ours are its subordination to the Present. Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.
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I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul.
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I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.
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Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.
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When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
