H.W. Charles Quotes

My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.

Ah! dear friend, you little know the possibilities which are in you.

Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.

My message is simple: take control of your life

Well, when I went off to college, the guys I used to hang with were pumping gas and voting Democrat. Today they're still pumping gas and voting Democrat. Guess the Democrats didn't do much for them.

The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

We must be the same person in private and in public. Only the Christian worldview gives us the basis for this kind of integrity.

The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders!

Christians are called to redeem entire cultures, not just individuals.

We must trust as if it all depended on God and work as if it all depended on us

Frontline love. It is our one hope for breaking down barriers and for restoring the sense of community, of caring for one another, that our decadent, impersonalized culture has sucked out of us.

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

People always say he can run and he can jump. So can a deer and you wouldn't put a deer in the game.

Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.

You cannot have Christ, if you will not serve Him.

He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

In 40 years I have not spent 15 minutes without thinking of Jesus.

What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

Grace puts its hand on the boasting mouth, and shuts it once for all.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

What great faith our Lord Jesus Christ asks of us - and how just that is. Do we not owe him such faith? It looks impossible to us, but Jesus is Master of the impossible.

Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are so, how abundantly God blesses them and how the church prospers!

Holy service in constant fellowship with God is heaven below

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

You know what I always say about basketball whenever anybody tried to tell me the Knicks are gonna be good: They're old. Old people don't get healthy. They die.

If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us.

You cannot win without sacrifice.

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.

Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.

I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little.

As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived.

Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world

If you subsidize apples, you get more apples; if you subsidize unemployment, you get more of it.

We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.

If there is wrong, you don't say we have to get rid of it gradually. If injustice exists, you need to eliminate it immediately.

The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire.

There still might be a place for us somewhere.

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.

A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.

Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die.

Humility makes us ready to be blessed by the God of all grace.