H.W. Charles Quotes

Attitude and the spirit in which we communicate are as important as the words we say.

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a noble intelligence, but they are not men of taste.

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.

One fails forward toward success.

They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

There is no heavier burden than an unfulfilled potential.

Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore.

The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.

Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord sought us.

How do we change the world? Change the story.

I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.

If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.

If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.

The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.

I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and grief, and pain, I soon shall find my [child] again within the arms of God.

All was glorious - a cloudless sky above, a most delicious view around. . . . How great is our good fortune! I care not what may be the condition of the earth; it is the sky that is for me now.

Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.

To be a soul winner is the happiest thing in the world. And with every soul you bring to Jesus Christ, you seem to get a new heaven here upon earth.

You have been the last dream of my soul.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

I think I'm afraid of being happy because whenever I get too happy something bad always happens.

Faith does not change my circumstances; faith changes me. Faith may not bring in the tuition check when I need it, but faith will give me what it takes to hang on.

Laughter is the most beautiful and beneficial therapy God ever granted humanity.

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.

If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House.

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

There's only 5 real jobs in the world. Teacher, fireman, policeman, doctor and somebody who is in the armed service. If you don't have one of those 5 jobs, you shouldn't take your life that serious.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.

In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.

It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.

Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.

It is in your power to release the ability of God.

The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.