H.W. Charles Quotes

The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.

I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.

Think lightly of hell, and you will think lightly of the cross. Think little of the sufferings of lost souls, and you will soon think little of the Savior who delivers them.

All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

I know nothing that can so comfort the soul, so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow, so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.

Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise.

The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presence.

The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.

Pardon ever follows sincere repentence.

The wishing gate opens into nothing.

None but God would ever have thought of justifying me. I am a wonder to myself.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience.

Idleness is the key of beggary.

I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unravel all the mysteries of the divine Word, for salvation is the one thing we are to live for.

We are never, never so much in danger of being proud as when we think we are humble.

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

Wash your face every morning in a bath of praise.

The Lord is a good banker, and I trust Him. He has never failed me. Why should I be anxious?

When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.

This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology.

Let your tears fall because of sin, but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man.

A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.

Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.

The granting of prayer, when offered in the name of Jesus, reveals the Father's love to him, and the honor which he has put upon him.

When men talk of a little hell it's because they think they have only a little sin and believe in a little Savior.

It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.

Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.

The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.

I am certain that to preach the wrath of God with a hard heart, a cold lip, a tearless eye, and an unfeeling spirit is to harden men, not benefit them.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times a cheer a downcast spirit.

Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet.

Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.

Depend upon it, since Satan could not kill the church by roaring at her like a lion, he is now trying to crush her by hugging her like a bear.

Every man who loses everlasting life rejects it himself. God denies it not to him-he will not come that he may have life.

The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God.

Giving is true loving.

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.

Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)

If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who cares?

The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an 80% "piracy" rate if you insist on looking at it in those terms.