H.W. Charles Quotes

People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them; they would mean less and less to me.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home.

Cowards never lasted long enough to become real cowboys.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing succeeds so well as success.

Mighty prayer has often been produced by mighty trial.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Take steps each day to be sure your life expresses commitment to Jesus.

Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.

For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.

The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

You'll live. Only the best get killed.

The remedy for our social evils does not consist so much in changing the system of government as it does in increasing the general intelligence of the people so that they may learn how to govern.

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

You won't find God at the Seminary and you won't find wisdom in the halls of intellectualism.

I gave up trying to understand people long ago. Now I let them try to understand me!

There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.

Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.

Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity.

Do not go on His errands till first you have sat at His feet.

As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others.

The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.

Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious.

As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.