H.W. Charles Quotes

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.

we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps

What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.

It was raining cats and dogs, and I fell in a poodle.

Man was made in the image of God, and nothing will satisfy man but God, in whose image he was made.

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry.

Loyalty to the President is great, but loyalty to truth, integrity, and country is even better.

you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Grace does not choose a man and leave him as he is.

He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

I did grow up watching Buck Rogers and Buck Rogers didn't stop at Mars. In my lifetime, I will be incredibly disappointed if we have not at least reached Mars.

Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership, their confidence, their dominance over other peoples.

It's either the flu or love... The symptoms are the same.

Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

We must beware of falling into the fatally common error of supposing that what we see is all there is to see.

The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.

To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.

The less men think, the more they talk.

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in every system of philosophy, in every religion, and in every science. There is no getting away from the law of love.

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.

I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget.

When all else is changing within and around, in God and His mercy no change can be found.

The present is the key to the past

The world has changed and it's going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.

And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.

On tough days, you gotta have heart. Don't quit, whatever you do. Persevere.

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.

Never trust a man in a jumpsuit

As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.