Lloyd Jones
Lloyd Jones
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Introduced to this world in Llandyssul, Cardiganshire, Wales, November 14, 1843, I celebrated my first anniversary by landing at Castle Garden, in New York City.
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He used to get in some trouble at school. But since he started boxing four months ago, he's totally turned his life around.
attitude hard trained type
He said, 'Coach, I've trained too hard to lose.' To have that type of attitude is amazing.
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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded.
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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.
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It's been going downhill instead of uphill, ... We think it's the location. If we knew the answer, I'd probably not be closing it. We tried everything we could.
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The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.
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The Bible does not isolate war, as if it were something separate and unique and quite apart, as we tend to do in our thinking. It is but one of the manifestations of sin, one of the consequences of sin.
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Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.
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Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.
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This actual question of 'Why does God allow war?' is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all.
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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.
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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.
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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.