H.W. Charles Quotes

Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist!

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice... Practice whatever the hell you do.

Indecision is actually the individual’s decision to fail.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

the one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

You are what you share.

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.

one more creature dizzy with love

My language is the sum total of myself.

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

It's highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the Universe that we humans stand alone.

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist.

There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.

The future does not belong to men.

Nobody can do as much damage to the church of God as the man who is within its walls, but not within its life.

Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.

Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

Satan can make men dance upon the brink of hell as though they were on the verge of heaven.

My soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no satisfaction to be found in earthly things-God alone can give rest to my spirit.

You have only one model, Jesus. Follow, follow, follow him, step by step, imitating him, sharing his life in every way.

The only way to get love is by giving it, that the more you give the more you will get, and the only way in which you can give it, is to fill yourself with it, until you become a magnet.

Consume all obstacles, heavenly fire, and give us now both hearts of flame and tongues of fire to preach Your reconciling word, for Jesus' sake

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

The anointing of the Holy Spirit is given to illuminate His Word, to open the Scriptures, and to place the spiritual man in direct communication with the mind of God.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.

Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?

The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.

I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

The more holy a man becomes, the more conscious he is of unholiness.

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

A married man with a family will do anything for money.

We must measure what leads to results, not simply what is easy to measure.

The devil is not afraid of a dust-covered Bible.

When everyone gets something for nothing, soon no one will have anything, because no one will be producing anything.

He who does not serve God where he is would not serve God anywhere else.

I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them.

Faith is like a boomerang; begin using what you have and it comes back to you in greater measure.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

Today's marginalization of Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith as a total worldview.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.

His eyes never slumber, and His hands never rest; His heart never ceases to beat with love, and His shoulders are never weary of carrying His people's burdens.

Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.

Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.