H.W. Charles Quotes

I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.

The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.

If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.

Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that

The lion of anger shall give place to the lamb of meekness; the raven of uncleanness shall fly before the dove of purity; the vile serpent of deceit shall be trodden under the heel of truth.

We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God’s grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.

He who is not angry at transgression becomes a partaker in it.

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way.

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

La' , tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute , Luxe, calme et volupte . There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous.

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond — sometimes better; as in the present case, where his bond might prove but a doubtful sort of security.

We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.

We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.

I would sooner pluck one single brand from the burning than explain all mysteries.

We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.

He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.

If your creed and Scripture do not agree, cut your creed to pieces, but make it agree with this book.

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.

Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.

God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective!

We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies.

The thought of going abroad makes my heart leap.

Your imaginings can have as much power over you as your reality, or even more.

The Bible says that the the Lord thy God is a jealous God. But if you are omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, and the creator of all that exists, of whom could you possibly be jealous?

Take every day, love every day, enjoy every day, even if you have a crappy day, find the fun things in it.

Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.

Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.

Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost.

If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.

See what you can do with your daring with color and your ignorance mixed with it.

Poetry is the dark side of the moon.

Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world. Morning arrives and that's it. Sunlight darkens the earth.

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.

Be neither too remote nor too familiar.

This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.

The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!

As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.

If you can play the blues, you can do anything.

It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.

Nowadays they say you need a special chip to put in the TV so kids can't watch this and that. In my day, we didn't need a chip. My mom was the chip. End of story.

Many times during auditions, I was told that I couldn't carry a note with a bucket, and that I sure couldn't play the piano.

great books are the ones we need