H.W. Charles Quotes

The deliverance of the saints must take place some time before 1914.

My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.

We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.

In recent years, research into the prevention and treatment of arthritis has led to measures that successfully reduce pain and improve the quality of life for millions.

God buries His workmen but carries on His work.

Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train.

God is gone up on high with a triumphant noise.

Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

How sweet the past is, no matter how wrong, or how sad. How sweet is yesterday's noise

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.

I was born with music inside me

Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice.

We are here to do a great work because the mind that created us knew what it wanted us to do when it created us.

God bless us, every one!

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.

Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

...when you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you'll get to rest and relax until He says, 'Go.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others.

You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful.

I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and in our time I include the youngest readers.

My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star.

Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

We are in charge of our attitudes.

It's easy to get attached to idols, good things inappropriately adored. But when you have Jesus in the centre of a room, everything else only junks up the decor.

Confidence brings joy when we let God be God.

My order of priorities reflects the level of my commitment to Christ. Whoever or whatever is in first place, if it isn't the Lord Jesus, is in the wrong place.

You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?

We shouldn't deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys.

Strength comes from choosing to fully trust, pray, and praise. Our circumstances may not change, but in the process we change.

Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior.

I couldn't read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read classic comic books because I could figure them out from the context of the pictures. Now I listen to books on tape.

The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.