H.W. Charles Quotes

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.

What is explained can be denied but what is felt cannot be forgotten.

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty.

There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.

Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope: accept and trust.

I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

You will find a common dichotomy in life. Those who don't have vision or determination, and refuse to dream the impossible, are always in the majority.

The beautiful thing about this adventure called faith is that we can count on Him never to lead us astray.

I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves to measures of economy.

There is no counsel like God's counsel. No comfort like His comfort. No wisdom more profound than the wisdom of the Scriptures.

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns

It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I.

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.

Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.

Strength is gained in the range it is trained.

When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.

For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.

Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.

I've got a feeling that if it's so easy for you - the struggle and the initiative are not as strong as they are for a person who has to struggle and therefore has more to say.

If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love.

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

This is now a covenant of pure grace; let no man attempt to mix works with it.

Obedience is the highest practical courage.

Our joy ends where love of the world begins.

When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.

We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.

I lie as truthfully as I can.

Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.

No tribute is laid on castles in the air.

It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.

Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.

You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on.

The two great tests of character are wealth and poverty.

Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.

The world is filled with unmarried marriage counselors.

I love people; it's mankind I can't stand.

Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.

So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks.

[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.

What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong unmortal space crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.