"When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul."

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"When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul."

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"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"

Horace, Roman Poet

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"The beauty of your soul depends on your thoughts more than what is going on around you."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

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"Brevity is the soul of wit."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not."

Richelle Mead, American Author

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"The magic moment in life is when your soul just connects with another soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The dead only knows their world."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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Explore more quotes by Ralph W. Sockman

"True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be."

Humility

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength."

Strength

"The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves."

Life

"Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted."

Life

"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."

Knowledge

"Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow."

Optimism

"Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion."

Religion

"When 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.'"

Society

"Love is the outreach of self toward completion."

Love

"A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men."

Man