H.W. Charles Quotes

The existence of hypocrites does not prove the non-existence of true believers.

We know that God's being is perfect, His essence infinite, His dominion absolute, His power unlimited, and His glory transcendent.

He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

Your damnation is your own election, not God’s.

You need not bring life to the scripture. You should draw life from the scripture.

There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.

I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.

That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.

Dying is the last,but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about

Though you have changed a thousand times, He has not changed once.

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

There is no other salvation except that which begins and ends with grace.

I THINK the moments we are nearest to heaven are those we spend at the Lord’s table.

To pray is to cast off your burdens, it is to tear away your rags, it is to shake off your diseases, it is to be filled with spiritual vigor, it is to reach the highest point of Christian health.

A sheep in the midst of wolves is safe compared with the Christian in the midst of ungodly men.

The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.

Home is the grandest of all institutions.

All places are places of worship to a Christian.

Never be afraid of your Bibles.

The gospel which they so greatly needed they would not have; the miracles which Jesus did not always choose to give, they eagerly demanded.

When Jesus died on the cross the veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom so that big sinners like me might fit through.

The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave.

If Christ be anything, He must be everything.

Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.

The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.

It seems to me that doubt is worse than trial. I had sooner suffer any affliction than be left to question the gospel or my own interest in it.

The Master knows better than to exhaust His servants and quench the light of Israel. Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.

If when I get to heaven the Lord shall say to me, Spurgeon, I want you to preach for all eternity, I would reply, Lord, give me a Bible, that is all I need.

We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.

Men to be truly won must be won by truth.

The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.

J.C. Ryle is an evangelical champion...One of the bravest and best of men.

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to pray without a Savior, insults the deity.

The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.

My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries, lest thou come to smile at sin itself. It is thine enemy, and thy Lord's enemy.

You need not to know much about Heaven-it is where Christ is, and that is Heaven enough for us.

When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.

Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible.

The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.

The practical effect of Christianity is happiness, therefore let it be spread abroad everywhere!

We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

If you don't have a goal, any road will do.

If you are just having unusual experiences and feeling special–especially if you feel better than everybody else–I think that is a dangerous thing.

I like to compete. I think competition brings out the best in anybody.