"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."
"Habit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel like it. We read the Bible when we feel like it. Leaving our religious exercises to the promptings of impulse, we become creatures of impulse rather than soldiers of Christ. An army made up of creatures of impulse would be only a mob. So is a church."
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Source: Ralph Washington Sockman (1958). “Mans̓ First Love: The Great Commandment”
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