H.W. Charles Quotes
No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harboured in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline
For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.
the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.
I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.
I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own one. the luck of the fool is inviolate.
Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin.
places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?
Lost! Lost! Lost! Better a whole world on fire than a soul lost! Better every star quenched and the skies a wreck than a single soul to be lost!
A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.
Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.
Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.
Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather.
Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
If we be married to Christ, and He be jealous of us, depend upon it this jealous husband will let none touch His spouse.
The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.
Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.
He'll never be Jordan. This clearly takes him out of the conversation. He can win as much as he wants to.
When I hear that a personal friend has fallen into matrimonial courses, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism — a holy sorrow, unmixed with anger.
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
If Christ were only a cistern we might soon exhaust his fullness but who can drain a fountain?
Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.
If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up - from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the backyard fence or around the barbecue grill.
God notices every one of us; there is not a sparrow or a worm that continues to live apart from His decrees.
The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.
The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.
He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.
Atonement by the blood of Jesus is not an arm of Christian truth; it is the heart of it.
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.
Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.
Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.
It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.
There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.
God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.
If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.