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Lloyd C. Douglas quotes

American Clergyman August 27, 1877 – February 13, 1951

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Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but, on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view--and feel exalted--and your eyes are full of happy tears--and you want to sing--and wish you had wings! And then--you can't stay there, but must continue your journey--you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten. Lloyd C. Douglas
I never thought much about flowers until I made the close acquaintance of a man who knew all about them. You would have thought that the butterflies and flowers were friends of his. 'See how richly they are clad,' he said. 'Even King Solomon did not have such raiment. Lloyd C. Douglas
Her voice was unusually deep toned for a girl, he thought. Girls were always screaming what they had to say. Her throaty voice made you feel you had known her a long time. Lloyd C. Douglas
Are men and beasts of the same category? Is there no essential difference between them in respect to the quality of their value?…It is an offense to the majesty of the human spirit; for if any man deserves to be regarded as of the same quality as a beast of burden, then no man has any dignity left. Lloyd C. Douglas
Lloyd C. Douglas quote: "they pick flowers, but they do not sweep the sky!"
they pick flowers, but they do not sweep the sky! Lloyd C. Douglas
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost. Lloyd C. Douglas
This faith...is not like a deed to a house in which one may live with full rights of possession. It is more like a kit of tools with which a man may build him a house. The tools will be worth just what he does with them. When he lays them down, they will have no value until he takes them up again. Lloyd C. Douglas
Lloyd C. Douglas quote: "An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of..."
An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith. Lloyd C. Douglas

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