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. Lloyd C. Douglas
The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.
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Joshua Harris
The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.
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Shannon L. Alder
You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient.
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Harriet Evans
It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.
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Anna Wintour
Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.
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Ansel Adams
More Quotes By Lloyd C. Douglas
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...
Hoarded things might easily become a menace; a mere fire-and-theft risk; a breeding-ground for destructive insects; a source of worry. Men would have plenty of anxieties, but there was no sense in accumulating worries over THINGS! That kind of worry destroyed your character. Even an...
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...
An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith.
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...
