H.W. Charles Quotes

Thank the Lord for using each person as a tool in your life to deepen your insight into His grace and conforming you to the image of His Son.

One thing about dead people, they're all the same.

We know that all must, in the end, stand by the side of the Divine. There is no escape from it, because that is His will.

Our children will grow up confused, not respecting the Bible or anything else that is sacred.

Any wrong decision you have ever made will become unimportant when your attention has shifted from it to a creative reason for living right here and now.

Never place a time limit on the healing. That is dictating to the spiritual intelligence that does its perfect work when it is not impeded by your questions and false beliefs.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

Nobody picks on a strong man.

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.

The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

I do not intend for 'honor, courage, and commitment' to be just words; I expect them to frame the way that we live and act.

'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person's day, week, or life.

Do you want to be wise? Choose wise friends

The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation

It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.

It is a sin to be poor.

Everything for me becomes allegory

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

Faith is the accepting of what God gives. Faith is the believing what God says. Faith is the trusting to what Jesus has done. Only do this and you are saved, as surely as you are alive!

Freedom is a system based on courage.

Ah, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death.

It seems odd, that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should think so little of what he has revealed to others.

Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.

Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world

Without Christ there is no hope.

Only the prayer which comes from our heart can get to God's heart.

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.