H.W. Charles Quotes

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

The force of love, the force of reunion is unstoppable.

If you think you can walk in holiness without keeping up perpetual fellowship with Christ, you have made a great mistake. If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.

Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.

There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen.

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery.

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name.

You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?

Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.

The staple of our Australian colonies, but more particularly of New South Wales, the climate and the soil of which are peculiarly suited to its production, - is fine wool.

I feel that I have a good enough social radar to tell good people from bad people.

That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

Simplicity is a state of mind.

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

It’s up there, and you can see the front of it. But what it is isn’t what you’re looking at. It’s behind what you’re looking at.

My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.

There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it

It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

God never calls His people to accomplish anything without promising to supply their every need.

Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.