H.W. Charles Quotes

One can succeed at almost anything for which he has enthusiasm.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.

I landed in this country with $2.50 in cash and $1 million in hopes, and those hopes never left me.

Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?

There is nothing so disturbing to one's well-being and judgment as to see a friend get rich

Where are the dogs going? you people who pay so little attention ask. They are going about their business. And they are very punctilious, without wallets, notes, and without briefcases.

No man ever served God by doing things tomorrow.

I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God.

Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself.

I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine.

Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.

The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.

The child of God knows his good works do not make him acceptable to God, for he was acceptable to God by Jesus Christ long before he had any good works.

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.

I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me.

If you never failed, then you're probably not doing very much.

You have to be selfish to be an actor.

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

I am in love with this green Earth.

I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it

To pray is to mount on eagle's wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth.

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

In college, [Christian students] are assaulted by secular relativism, and if we don't prepare them, they will be like lambs led to slaughter.

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

God doesn't work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for His ultimate glory.

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow of the blood in our veins. A living God must be served in a living way.

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?

God has somehow placed into Christian's insides a special something, that extra inner reservoir of power that is more than a match for the stuff life throws at us.

France has no friends, only interests.

True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.

If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.

Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate new worlds of thought and experience.

Often, without being at all aware of it, men judge themselves, not by God's rule, but by their own.