H.W. Charles Quotes

We are not responsible to God for the soul that are saved, but we are responsible for the Gospel that is preached, and for the way in which we preach it

God promises to keep His people, and He will keep His promises.

It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.

Say much of what the Lord has done for you, but say little of what you have done for the Lord.

Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?

Patience, then, believer, eternity will right the wrongs of time.

Every threatening of God, as well as every promise shall be fulfilled.

The world will never be converted to God unitl Christians cry less and laugh and sing more.

Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

They who seek Christ are already being sought of him.

Known to the Lord from the beginning were all your sins. Nevertheless, He still loved you.

God's law is our pleasure when the God of the law is our God.

The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.

All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

Sin is sovereign till sovereign grace dethrones it.

A Christian making money fast is just a man in a cloud of dust, it will fill his eyes if he be not careful.

Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.

The wicked man, when he dies, is driven to his grave, but the Christian comes to his grave.

Make the most of prayer. ... Prayer is the master-weapon. We should be wise if we used it more, and did so with a more specific purpose.

After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.

Easy roads make sleepy travellers.

Do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect.

Jesus is our Advocate before God.

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

I'm trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningless customs.

What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.

Any critic of Cezanne who described him as a painter of country scenes would be moving in the wrong direction. You must begin with the question of style . . .

It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.

Time touches all things with a destroying hand.

There is only one categorical imperative in golf, and that is to hit the ball. There are no minor absolutes.

When summoned hence to thine eternal sleep, Oh, may'st thou smile while all around thee weep.

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.

Sometimes we have to go to the darkness alone, before we can see the light.

How many times can summer turn to fall in one life?

November’s a burn and an ache.

Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.

You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible you might even forget yourself.

Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience... It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.

One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman.

When we call on God, he bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little child.

In Paris, I didn't want to be friends with people in fashion. I wanted to get into a philosophical society where all the thinking men were.

It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.

What I want out of my career is just to work.

I'm kind of new to Twitter. I'm about one year in, so I'm a little late to the party.

Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation?