H.W. Charles Quotes

Adversity is always unexpected and unwelcomed. It is an intruder and a thief. But in the hands of God, adversity becomes the means through which HIS Supernatural Power is demonstrated.

God blesses us so that we might bless others!

If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.

The essence of wisdom, from a practical standpoint, is pausing long enough to look at our lives-invitations, opportunities, relationships-from God's perspective. And then acting on it

Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry.

The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest.

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe.

Put variety in white.

Each day has its own individuality of color.

The daily life is so wearisome; yet duty lies that way.

Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.

Some people have everything Other people don't But everything don't mean a thing If it ain't the thing you want

Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.

It is because everything must come to an end that everything is so beautiful.

I never considered a career in broadcasting, not even as a kid.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.

I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind.

Other arms reach out to me, Other eyes smile tenderly, Still in peaceful dreams I see, The road leads back to you.

There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.

Now Listen You know I work so hard, all day long Everything I try to do, Seem to always turn out wrong That's why I wanna stop by on my way home and say Let's go get stoned

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

A new heart for a New Year, always!

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

The secret is writing down one simple line after another.

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.

What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.

Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.

I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed.

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.