H.W. Charles Quotes
The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.
The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.
Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.
Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.
The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings more glory to God than all creation.
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.
Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
It is thus that you may lead a charmed life and be forever protected from all harm; it is thus you may become a positive force whereby conditions of opulence and harmony may be attracted to you.
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.
Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: 'He is risen, indeed!'
More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.
Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror.
Do you need strength? Peace? Wisdom? Direction? Discipline? Ask for it! God will hear you.
It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures.
The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.
Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.
I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.
I was so humiliated, hurt, spurned, offended, angry, sorry--I cannot hit upon the right name for the smart--God knows what its name was--that tears started to my eyes.
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
This Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Wilson) signs this bill the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalized.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.
That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.
He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.
It is only serving God that is doing immortal work; it is only living for Christ that is living at all.
If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.
The gate is small because truth guards the entrance. The way is narrow because the Lord protects us with wise boundaries.
Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life.
No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.
Rejoice, the Lord is King! Your Lord and King adore; Mortals, give thanks and sing, And triumph evermore: Lift up your heart, lift up your voice; Rejoice, again, I say rejoice.
Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.