H.W. Charles Quotes

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you've got.

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man.

A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears.

You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse.

If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian.

Remember that thought is speech before God.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him created from animals.

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

Are you becoming what you've always hated?

The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized

Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back.

It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.

We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction.

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

The only way we're gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.

The glory of God's faithfulness is that no sin of ours has ever made Him unfaithful.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Market forces do not make cities, they destroy them

One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you're not.

There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.

Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us back.

In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.

The emotions must be called upon to give feeling to the thought so that it will take form.

There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been.

When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.

Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped.

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we're never going to be successful not because of you white people but because of other black people.

I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazzman, but not famed enough to make a living in this society.

Words that are not spoken are much more powerful than words that are spoken in unbelief.

Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.

It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.