H.W. Charles Quotes
History has recorded nothing so dramatic in design, nor so skillfully manipulated, as this attempt to create the National Reserve Association, or the Federal Reserve.
A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel.
Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him
Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.
It is a thoroughly anti-Christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.
As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.
It is only when men associate with the wicked with the desire and purpose of doing them good, that they can rely upon the protection of God to preserve them from contamination.
The child of God works not for life, but from life; he does not work to be saved, but works because he is saved
I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.
Love to Christ is proved by doing the things which He commands, and not merely saying, Lord, Lord.
But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality And without knowing why they always say: "Let's go!
The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.
The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.
It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.
She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
To understand the culture, study the dance. To understand the dance, study the people.
Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there.
While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.
There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.
Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.
Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.