C. F. Lloyd Quotes

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

No matter what they tell you, no matter what they do, no matter what they teach you, what you believe is true.

Sometimes the Lord rides out the storm with us and other times He calms the restless sea around us. Most of all, He calms the storm inside us in our deepest inner soul.

Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

My philosophy was if they weren't calling you names, you weren't doing anything.

You can do amazing things when people love you.

I'm a competitor. No matter what I'm doing, whether I'm golfing, whether I'm playing indoor soccer with my fiancé - he's not going to get by me. I'm going to try to do whatever I can to win.

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.

You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.

Less is only more where more is no good.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

I'm honest. If people aren't putting in the effort, I will definitely let them know because I think that that can only help them.

The eternal everlasting God has become our Father and the moment we realize that, it transforms everything.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

You are either a Christian or you are not a Christian; you cannot be partly a Christian. You are either "dead" or "alive"; you are either "born" or "not born".

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God's people. Do you want to be like that?

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

What strikes me is that theres a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: 'Liberty for each, for all, and forever!'

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by his barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.

Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Liberty for each, for all, and forever!

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

You know, I feel that God isn't going to put something in front of me that I can't deal with.

If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't human and tears weren't rolling down my face and I wasn't pissed and I wasn't angry. There are lots of times that those emotions come out in my career.

To love to preach is one thing; to love to whom you preach is quite another.

Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life.

The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.