H.W. Charles Quotes

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.

You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.

There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning.

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers.

The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

Essentially, all life depends upon the soil

It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.

Change begets change.

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.

We must look forward to the future as that is where most of us will be spending the rest of our lives.

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

Forget all you know & learn something every day.

You are called not to be successful or to meet any of the other counterfeit standards of this world, but to be faithful and to be expended in the cause of serving the risen and returning Christ.

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

You don’t become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.

I enjoy the bad things that are said about me. It enhances sales and makes me feel evil. I don't like to feel good 'cause I am good. But evil? Yes. It gives me another dimension.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

More often than not Democratic Law works to the advantage of the few even though the many have voted; this, of course, is because the few have told them how to vote.

I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.

Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

There is no form of conviction more intimate and irresistible than that which arises from the inward teaching of the Spirit.

The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also to punish pride and egotism.

Don't be afraid of imperilling your health by giving a few extra hours to the company that pays your salary!

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.

A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison with facts.

When God said "Let there be light" he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light.

Sometimes we are to guard our heart...protect it from invasion and keep things safe and secure. Sometimes we should give our heart... let certain qualities out and release them to others

The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.

Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.

Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.

We are often so caught up in our activities that we tend to worship our work, work at our play, and play at our worship.

They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.

Knowledge is the harvest of attention

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.