H.W. Charles Quotes

It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.

Prayer moves the arm that moves the world.

This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him

My music is evidence of my souls will to live.

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.

This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody.

Sin and Hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce.

the tigers have found me and I do not care.

If you have no wish to bring others to heaven, you are not going there yourself.

Let gratitude be awakened; let humility be deepened; let love be quickened.

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.

If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you.

In our day, you can mock religion in public and even get funds for doing it. But you can't show respect for religion in public - or you risk being hauled into court.

On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.

The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn.

Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss.

Sometimes my dreams are so deep that I dream that I'm dreaming.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.

You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.

Mighty prayer has often been produced by mighty trial.

Nothing succeeds so well as success.

Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance.

The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him.

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

He that is never on his knees on earth shall never stand upon his feet in heaven

Good morning! Remember: A person can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm.

The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a sort of sermon that will make the devils in hell laugh, but make the angels of God weep.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading.

Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.

You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Visualize, 'prayerize', 'actionize', and your wishes will come true.

Cowards never lasted long enough to become real cowboys.