25 Quotes by 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.

That’s what is wrong. Jesus commands us to carry on his work, no matter at what cost in privation, pain, and hazard of life; and all we’ve accomplished is a free boarding-house and loafing-place for anybody who will say, “I believe.

I used to pass the flowers by without seeing them, as almost every man does.

Honorable men were keeping their word, my son, long before this Christian religion was proposed.

For many years a tree might wage a slow and silent warfare against an encumbering wall, without making any visible progress. One day the wall would topple – not because the tree had suddenly laid hold upon some supernormal energy, but because its patient work of self-defense and self release had reached fulfillment. The long-imprisoned tree had freed itself. Nature had had her way.

Perhaps this general degradation was the result of too much crowding, too little privacy, too much noise. You couldn’t be decent if you weren’t intelligent; you couldn’t be intelligent if you couldn’t think – and who could think in all this racket? Add the stench to the confusion of cramped quarters, and who could be self-respecting?

Nor could you clarify this confusion by assuming that the old man had been a victim of hallucination. Bartholomew wasn’t that type of person. He was neither a liar nor a fool.