Lloyd Jones
Lloyd Jones
inspirational success courage
Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
book eye flames
You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.
laughter children dad
I was eleven when my father left, so neither of us really knew our fathers. I’d met mine of course, but then I only knew my dad as a child knows a parent, as a sort of crude outline filled in with one or two colors. I’d never seen my father scared or cry. I’d never heard him admit to any wrongdoing. I have no idea what he dreamed of. And once I’d seen a smile pinned to one cheek and darkness to the other when my mum had yelled at him. Now he was gone, and I was left with just an impression—one of male warmth, big arms, and loud laughter.
dream dies
Dreams are nervy things—all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.
cathedral clearly derive divine family hand human love man power taught took woman
Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion. It taught man and woman how the human and the divine love could go hand in hand.
beautiful journey dust
Life is like an old-time rail journey--delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed.
lord vistas tricks
The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride
christianity interpretation thirds
I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.
summer father winter
My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer time.
stars guides duty
Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.
rainbow harmony distinction
Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects. Work for peace in religion.
fashion jesus men
Are there not thousands who have loved virtue who did not accept Jesus Christ in any supernatural or miraculous fashion, who, if they knew of him at all, knew of him only as the Nazarene peasant - the man Jesus. Such was Abraham Lincoln, the tender prophet of the gospel of good will upon earth.
justice soul cruelty
The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.
writing typewriters hell
You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?