H.W. Charles Quotes

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

Never trust a man in a jumpsuit

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

The only time an aircraft has too much fuel on board is when it is on fire.

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

And when God steps in, His working is like the difference between a skyscraper and a star.

If the pace and the push, the noise and the crowds are getting to you, it's time to stop the nonsense and find a place of solace to refresh your spirit

Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing.

Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.

If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified.

American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.

Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.

I've never met another man I'd rather be.

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

To know the Word of God, to live the Word of God, to preach the Word, to teach the Word, is the sum of all wisdom, the heart of all Christian service.

The brain is a mystery; it has been and still will be. How does the brain produce thoughts? That is the central question and we have still no answer to it.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

A classical liberal is someone who wants a society that maximizes peace, civility, tolerance, and well-being for everyone. One that opens opportunities for everyone to advance themselves.

Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.

But it [crony capitalism] erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.

We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

Faith is a principle which hath its root deeper feeling. We believe, whether we see or not.

The devil, darkness, and death may swagger and boast, the pangs of life will sting for a while longer, but don't worry; the forces of evil are breathing their last. Not to worry...He's risen!

I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.

The best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything else but a cry.

When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God's love.

Praying without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog.

[God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us - of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.

...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference.

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.

There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

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

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!

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.

True prayer is measured by weight, not by length

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and thine own soul shall be refreshed.

Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.