H.W. Charles Quotes

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

We must be before we can do, and we can do only to the extent which we are, and what we are depends upon what we think.

The early morning hour should be dedicated to praise: do not the birds set us the example?

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.

Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .

God wants you to understand the Word of God. The Bible is not a mystery book. It's not a book of philosophy. It's a book of truth that explains the attitude and heart of almighty God.

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

Some people never go crazy, what truly horrible lives they must live.

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

We must learn to let go, to give up, to make room for the things we have prayed for and desired.

When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.

We cannot always trace God's hand but we can always trust God's heart.

Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.

God is our portion, Christ our companion, the Spirit our Comforter, Earth our lodge, and Heaven is our home.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Wherever Jesus may lead us, He goes before us. If we don't know where we are going, we know with whom we go.

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.

I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

The more I looked at people, the more I hated them.

Amazing Love! how can it be, That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?

The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel.

Repentance is a change of willing, of feeling and of living, in respect to God.

We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.