H.W. Charles Quotes

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.

God looketh upon any thing we say, or any thing we do, and if He seeth Christ in it, He accepteth it; but if there be no Christ, He putteth it away as a foul thing.

You will win as many souls as God gives you, but no one will be converted by your own power.

It is not all darkness in a heart which can cry, "My God".

Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!

Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It loves for the creature's sake it loves, and for nothing else.

If it were Christ's intention to save all men, how deplorably He has been disappointed!

If there were no hell, the loss of heaven would be hell.

Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?.

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.

Come as you are. If you are the blackest soul out of hell, trust Christ, and that act of trust shall make you clean.

When we ask of the Lord coolly, and not fervently, we do as it were, stop His hand, and restrain Him from giving us the very blessing we "pretend" that we are seeking.

I do not believe in an atonement which is admirably wide, but fatally ineffectual.

We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like daily communion with the Lord Jesus.

Do not rest, believer, until you have full assurance of your interest in Jesus.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is a spiritual commerce with the Creator of heaven and earth.

I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou canst eat it all thyself.

I ascribe my change wholly to God.

It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed

A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best

God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.

Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us through sorrow.

It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.

To be cast down is often the best thing that can happen to us.

Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.

Incredulity is not wisdom.

When home is ruled according to God's Word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.

A Christian is the gentlest of men; but then he is a man.

Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.

Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.

That which,like a sea, threatens to drown you- shall be a highway for your escape

There cannot be heaven without Christ. He is the sum total of bliss; the fountain from which heaven flows, the element of which heaven is composed. Christ is heaven and heaven is Christ.

To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.

There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him.

Blood, always precious, is priceless when it streams from Immanuel's side.

Never lose heart in the power of the gospel.

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

If our faith can live without God, it is not divinely created. If God had begotten it, it would wait upon Him as the flowers wait upon the dew.

If any man will preach as he should preach, his work will take more out of him than any other labor under heaven.

Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure.

He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.

I am but of yesterday, and know nothing.

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.

Salvation is all grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing.