H.W. Charles Quotes

That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people...religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin!

Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Thought is energy. Active thought is active energy; concentrated thought is a concentrated energy. Thought concentrated on a definite purpose becomes power.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.

I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.

As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.

Happiness is a warm puppy.

The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.

Happiness is anyone and anything that's loved by you.

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

I don't know anything about Angola, but Angola's in trouble.

Think not of the sinner or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior!

In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself.

I go from a corruptible, to an incorruptible Crown; where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the World.

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.

Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

Vision is the ability to see God’s presence, to perceive God’s power, to focus on God’s plan in spite of the obstacles.

The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.

The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.

A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

If you cannot trust God for the temporal, how dare you trust him for the eternal?

Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see .

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.

Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.

We do not really think, we are barely conscious, until something goes wrong.