H.W. Charles Quotes

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.

Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.

Whatever subject I preach, I do not stop until I reach the Savior, the Lord Jesus, for in Him are all things.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

In heaven we shall see that we had not one trial too many.

The Christian should take nothing short of Christ for his model.

Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do.

Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables

By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

I believe that in public worship we should do well to be bound by no human rules, and constrained by no stereotyped order.

I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.

The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ.

A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.

Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up; let it be irradiated by a heavenly gleam; let your eyes shine with reflected glory. But when you speak of hell, your ordinary expression will do.

Victory needs conflict as its preface.

Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you.

Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.

God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us.

O What A Freedom Is Thine! Freedom from Condemnation. Freedom to the Promises, Freedom to the Throne of Grace, and at last Freedom to Enter Heaven!

God is with us, and His power is around us.

Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.

No man is really saved unless he is in his heart obedient to Christ.

I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.

If we will only think, we shall begin to thank.

All the hope of our ministry lies in the Spirit of God operating on the spirits of men.

The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.

If you truly believe in Jesus, it is for life. Saving faith is a life-long act.

We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.

Bible study is the metal that forges a Christian.

Thankfulness makes much of little.

It is well said that neglected prayer is the birth-place of all evil.

The more of heaven there is in our lives, the less of earth we shall covet.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.

I may not be much good at most things, but if I didnt have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.

Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own decisions, you're never going to be much of a collector anyway.

Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it.

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.