H.W. Charles Quotes

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

There is something so pure and frank and noble about him that to doubt his sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun.

When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.

If you sacrifice early, you'll win late.

I don't have all the answers. I have a lot of questions. And I have some basic principles.

The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.

Feel for others - in your pocket

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.

Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.

Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding.

And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!

Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

It may be very well to do this and that for good fellowship; but it will never do to lose the friendship of God in order to keep on good terms with men.

The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.

To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.

The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership.

We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.

The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.

If you mean to profit, learn to praise.

Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.

Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

There is nothing I enjoy more than to see others enjoy themselves.

God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him-be your faith weak or be it strong.

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.

Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.

Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

When you decide clearly and definitely what you want, then no sacrifice is too great as you put all of your powers into astounding results.

If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.

Death is a mighty, universal truth.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.