H.W. Charles Quotes

The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law.

If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.

Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations.

If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.

Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.

A prayer less soul is a Christ less soul.

Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus.

Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all.

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.

Anything which you have in this world, which you do not consecrate to Christ's cause, you do rob the Lord of.

There are few people who think what a solemn thing it is to be a Christian. I guess there is not a believer in the world who knows what a miracle it is to be kept a believer.

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

I cannot conceive of a greater wounding of the heart of Christ than to pay reverence to anything in the shape of a cross, or to bow before a crucifix!

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ

The worst thing thou has to fear is the treachery of thine own heart.

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.

Don't just throw the seed at the people! Grind it into flour, bake it into bread, and slice it for them. And it wouldn't hurt to put a little honey on it

Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.

One of the most modern pretenders to inspiration is the Book of Mormon. I could not blame you should you laugh outright while I read aloud a page from that farrago.

Our extremities are God's opportunities.

Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.

He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.

No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.

Is it not a sad thing that after all Christ's love to us, we should repay it with lukewarm love to Him?

The man who finds the ministry an easy life will also find that it will bring a hard death.

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

The fact is, we sometimes read Scripture, thinking of what it ought to say, rather than what it does say.

I am certain that the safest way to defend your character is never to say a word about it.

To preach the gospel is to stae every doctrine contained in God's word, and to give every truth its proper prominence.

He who have two grounds of trust is lost!

Be sure, whatever you leave out, that you teach the children the three R’s,-Ruin, Redemption, and Regeneration.

That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable.

If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!

It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well.

It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.

Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion!

The angels did not merely sin and lose heaven, but they passed beyond all other beings in sin and made themselves fit denizens for hell.

One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.

To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning.

Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart.

I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.

To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better.

Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!