H.W. Charles Quotes
I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.
A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.
I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.
When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied?
Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.
Far be it for me to imagine that Zion contains none but Calvinistic Christians within her walls, or that there are none saved who do not hold our views
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
Don't let your hopes or fears come between you and Jesus; follow hard after Him. He will never fail you.
An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.
What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost you sorrow.
The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.
I believe nothing merely because Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God.
Beloved Friends, we may well continue to praise God, for our God continues to give us causes for praise!
If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Praise is the beauty of a Christian. What wings are to a bird, what fruit is to the tree, what the rose is to the thorn, that is praise to a child of God.
All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature.
Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in spirit for divine delights!
For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.
The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.
I will do as much as I can, says one. Any fool can do that. He that believes in Christ does what he cannot do, attempts the impossible, and performs it.
The Gospel is like a caged lion. It does not need to be defended, it just needs to be let out of its cage.
Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.
It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.
The insatiable thirst for everything that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
