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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My wails of sorrow are tormenting my soul
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There's not too many rich black people in this world.
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I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.
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We may differ widely in environments, education, learning, knowledge, or lack of it, and in our personalities, our likes and dislikes. But if we set ourselves the task, we'll find a meeting place somehow and somewhere.
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To do wrong is the greatest of evils.
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When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
