H.W. Charles Quotes
Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
The vibrations of mental forces are the finest and consequently the most powerful in existence.
Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.
If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.
He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.
God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation.
Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.
Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die - or if need be, to win and die! The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.
It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.
This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.
A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.
Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.
What does politically correct mean? If you're fat, don't ask me if you're fat, because I'm gonna tell you the truth. You're fat.
There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please.
He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him.
Christian humility does not consist in denying what there is of good in us; but in an abiding sense of ill-desert, and in the consciousness that what we have of good is due to the grace of God.
Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
When we preach Christ crucified, we have no reason to stammer, or stutter, or hesitate, or apologize; there is nothing in the gospel of which we have any cause to be ashamed.
Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.
We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.
If you take Christ out of Christianity, Christianity is dead. If you remove grace out of the gospel, the gospel is gone. If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.
Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He desires to reproduce in us.
Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.