Lloyd C. Douglas





Lloyd C. Douglas

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born
August 27, 1877 in Columbia City, Indiana, The United States

died
February 13, 1951

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was a noteworthy American minister and author. He spent part of his boyhood in Monroeville, Indiana, Wilmot, Indiana and Florence, Kentucky, where his father, Alexander Jackson Douglas, was pastor of the Hopeful Lutheran Church. He died in Los Angeles, California.
Douglas was one of the most popular American authors of his time, although he didn't write his first novel until he was 50.
His written works were of a moral, didactic, and distinctly religious tone. His first novel, Magnificent Obsession, was an immediate and sensational success. Critics held that his type of fiction was in the tradition of the great religious writings of an earlier generation, such as, Ben-Hur and Quo Vadis.
Douglas is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery i...more


Average rating: 4.07 · 6,805 ratings · 799 reviews · 13 distinct works
The Robe
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 5,516 ratings — published 1942 — 34 editions
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Magnificent Obsession
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 817 ratings — published 1932 — 14 editions
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The Big Fisherman
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 1948 — 7 editions
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Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1939 — 6 editions
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White Banners
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 63 ratings3 editions
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Green Light
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1935 — 4 editions
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Disputed passage.
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1939 — 6 editions
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Invitation to Live
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1940 — 2 editions
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Forgive Us Our Trespasses
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1959 — 4 editions
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Precious Jeopardy
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1933 — 3 editions
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More books by Lloyd C. Douglas…
“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 of happy tears--and you want to sing--and wish you had wings! And then--you can't stay there, but must continue your journey--you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten.”
Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe

“This faith, is not like a deed to a house in which one may live with full rights of possession. It is more like a kit of tools with which a man may build himself a house. The tools will be worth just what he does with them. When he lays them down, they will have no value until he takes them up again.”
Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe

“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 did not have such raiment.”
Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe

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