H.W. Charles Quotes

I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

We should never forget the two axioms: 'Jesus is with me' and whatever happens, happens by the will of God.

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.

Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

He (Jesus) will reign over you, either by your consent, or without it.

When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

...Pomeranians speak only to Poodles and Poodles speak only to God.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.

There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.

I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.

It is wonderful how God works by our hands, and yet His own hand does it all.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.

Depend on it, my hearer, you never will go to heaven unless you are prepared to worship Jesus Christ as God.

We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.

Six feet of dirt make all men equal.

There are people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back.

Poor quality is remembered long after low prices are forgotten.

If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

When we are weak, then are we strong. When most empty of self, we are most full of God.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

You have my soul and I have your money

I don't write music for sissy ears.

When you think of what you are, and despair; think also of what He is, and take heart.

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth

Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous.

I make war on the living, not the dead.

Goodbye don't mean gone.

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.

France cannot be France without greatness.

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

If you only knew what God had to take me through to get me to the place where he could use me to be a blessing to other people, I doubt whether you would be willing to pay the price.

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.