H.W. Charles Quotes

I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it has been hitherto.

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

Forth in thy name,O Lord, I go, My daily labour to pursue. Thee, only thee, resolved to know, In all I think or speak or do.

Expand Thy wings, celestial Dove, brood o'er our nature's night; on our disordered spirits move, and let there now be light.

The Library is the heart of the University.

There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

I cant retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. Youd have to remove the music from me surgically—like you were taking out my appendix.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.

the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

I preach darkness. I don't inspire hope—only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words.

The need itself is not the call.

Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible.

The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is, and always will be, a wild animal.

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Old age is a shipwreck.

The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

It's not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

We should shun ingratitude, and live daily in the heavenly atmosphere of thankful love.

Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.