H.W. Charles Quotes
Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged.
In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
Why is the human skull as dense as it is? Nowadays we can send a message around the world in one-seventh of a second, but it takes years to drive an idea through a quarter-inch of human skull.
The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.
Most people do not go to the dentist until they have a toothache; most societies do not reform abuses until the victims begin to make life uncomfortable for others.
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only.
The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.
Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training
Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers
In nearly all cases, if the people complain of the length of our sermons it is because we fail to interest them personally in what we have to say.
The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.
A poem is a spider web Spun with words of wonder, Woven lace held in place By whispers made of thunder.
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.
What you're looking for, you won't find. But only by looking for it can it find you.
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.
Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.
There is always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you are not one of your creditors.
It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.
If you let a bully intimidate you, he's going to do it again. You've got to stand up to these strong-arm tactics.
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.
Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.
"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."