H.W. Charles Quotes

If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which we are surrounded

Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.

What we have in Christ Jesus-Redemption through His blood is the beginning and foundation of everything.

People are so prone to lean upon gifted men. And if they cannot have such, they get discouraged and scattered, instead of getting lovingly together and helping one another by their mutual faith.

My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.

No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.

A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.

Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.

If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.

Sweet music! sacred tongue of God.

It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.

Thinking: this journey will be the axle of my life.

they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?

One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.

When we come upon assurances that a mystery has been solved, we go on investigating.

It is not possible to define. Nothing has ever been finally found out. Because there is nothing final to find out.

If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?

If God does not save men by truth, he certainly will not save them by lies. And if the old gospel is not competent to work a revival, then we will do without the revival.

If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ.

mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.

You can't have community as an add-on to a monetized life. You have to actually need each other.

Choice, not chance, determines destiny.

Get yourself to a vantage point of seclusion and view the world with your eyes alone. Think of the infinite spaces of the skies and the world beneath.

Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.

Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Life swarms with innocent monsters.

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it!

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy. -Miss Havisham

The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do.

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

I am the wound and the knife! I am the slap and the cheek! I am the limbs and the rack, And the victim and the executioner! I am the vampire of my own heart.

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes.

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

You must be DIVORCED from your SIN, or you cannot be MARRIED to CHRIST.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!

The dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown.