H.W. Charles Quotes

One essential ingredient for being an original in the day of copies is courageous vision.

God's forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it-not because of who we are, but because of who He is.

I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.

Believing in grace is one thing. Living it is another.

Acceptance is taking from God's hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and thanksgiving.

People are far more important than rigid rules and demanding expectations.

The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel.

You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.... Your every past action and thought have made you what you are.

The most important advance in the next fifty years will be in the realm of the spiritual - dealing with the spirit of thought.

I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance.

The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.

An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

Remember the street car cannot turn out.

Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for.

Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest.

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.

If more persons would get so enthused over their day's work that some one would have to remind them to go out to lunch there would be more happiness in the world and less indigestion.

I love humanity, it's people I don't like.

The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'

Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy. How can I ever forget them.

For a nothing, Charlie Brown, you're really something!

I have deep feelings of depression... What can I do about this?' 'Snap out of it! Five cents, please.

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

Wouldn't it be nice if our lives were like VCRs , and we could 'fast forward' through the crummy times?

I have a feeling that when my ship comes in I'll be at the airport.

There's no sense in doing a lot of barking if you don't really have anything to say.

Security is a thumb and a blanket. Happiness is a warm puppy.

Different is not deviant, no matter what the world may say. You have the moral obligation to love yourself.

Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

Growth is ignited anytime you put in expressways and interchanges. It's a synergistic effect.

I have a face like the behind of an elephant.

Hollywood is a goofy place. But I like it.... If one weren't a little mad one wouldn't be there.

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

A Persian's heaven is eas'ly made: 'T is but black eyes and lemonade.

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

If all the world's a stage and all the people players, who in bloody hell hired the director?

In the Bible there are three distinctive meanings of grace; It means the mercy and active love of God; It means the winsome attractiveness of God; It means the strength of God to overcome.

But how can I give to God what is rightfully His? There is only one way; that is in service to others.

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

Our vision controls the way we think and, therefore, the way we act the vision we have of our jobs determines what we do and the opportunities we see or don't see.