H.W. Charles Quotes
The war had made some into libertines and some into serious, sober men.
I can't even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don't even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world.
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night.
I love America, " he'd tell us. We were going to make a million dollars manufacturing objects we had seen in dreams that night.
We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.
Perhaps he has confused making money with freedom.
Like many others, I grew up in an age that preached liberty and built slave camps.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sane employee in possession of his wits must be in want of a good manager.
The encapsulated bird your conspirators sent you to fetch. The sterilized male chicken with the Creator DNA sequences. The plot capon. Where is it?
Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card.
Old Enochian running on neural wetware is not the fastest procedural language ever invented, and it’s semantics make AppleScript look like a thing of elegance and beauty
There's our excuse... we'll blame everything on the round-headed kid!
There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made, " you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.
That has to be the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me in my whole life.
We must picture Oxford, during World War I, not as the neomedieval paradise it would like to be, but as the military compound it was obliged to become.
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.
The view was in an unearthly way beautiful, but it was also unendurable. It implied too much
Whatever we do, we must not treat the Great Commission like it's the Great Suggestion.
Let your passion become a passionate pursuit of Me. And as you follow, the sheep will follow.' (John 21:20-22)
In order to cease our striving, we must transfer our trust away from our own abilities, our own accomplishments, our own strength, and place it on His provision.
The abundance Jesus offers is a spiritual abundance that transcends circumstances, like income, health, living conditions, and even death. The abundant life is eternal.
What is it to be a follower of Jesus? What does it mean to imitate Him? What does it mean to walk in His steps?
Thank God you have got a Father that can be angry, but that loves you as much when He is angry as when He smiles upon you.
Proxy religion involves too great a risk: you had better see to your soul's matters yourself, and leave them in no man's hands.
Dream of yoking a gnat with an archangel, and then imagine that you can help your Lord in the work of salvation.
Abolishers of the soul (materialists) are necessarily abolishers of hell, they, certainly, are interested. At all events, they are people who fear to live again--lazy people.
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep
It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.
The answer is always "No" until you ask. - Ref James 4:2
Reform is usually possible only once a sense of crisis takes hold.... In fact, crises are such valuable opportunities that a wise leader often prolongs a sense of emergency on purpose.
Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it.
A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics.
If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear.
Because their example is powerful, they're somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them.
There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities.
Regardless of whether people have free will, human flourishing requires that they live in an environment in which they are treated as if they did.
The arts are the best Time Machine we have." C. S. Lewis
Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come of it.
Violence is the great attractor of human history, Dr. Iverson. A force almost as irresistible as gravity.
We may rifle the treasures of antiquity and make the heathen contribute to the gospel even as Hiram of Tyre served under Solomon's direction for the building of the Temple.