H.W. Charles Quotes

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Patience! patience! You are always in a hurry, but God is not.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven.

Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

It is the great business of every Christian to save souls.

I'm against abortion.

There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

Right is right though all condemn, and wrong is wrong though all approve.

There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

No matter how far we may wander from the Lord’s perfect will for our lives, we are always welcome back.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.

If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.

Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.

For over 221 years our Corps has done two things for this great Nation. We make Marines, and we win battles.

Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.

Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength."

The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life.

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.

A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.

The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

Art is the flower... life the green leaf.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.