H.W. Charles Quotes

Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for He counteth the hairs of your head.

Jesus is in the tempest. His love wraps the night about itself as a mantle, but to the eye of faith the sable robe is scarce a disguise.

Winter in the soul is by no means a comfortable season: but there is this comfort, namely, that the Lord makes it.

Cast the burden of the present along with the sin of the past and the fear of the future upon the Lord.

The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push it back.

Prayer bends the omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.

...I had always believed prayer ought to be conducted on our feet rather than on our knees, since God seems in all other departments of life to require us to stand upright and account for ourselves.

Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own!

Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity.

Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh.

If we cannot prevail with men for God, we will at least endeavor to prevail with God for men.

The suppliant, whose fears prevent his words, will be well understood by the Most High.

The commencement of all labor consisted in the preparation of his own soul.

Most of us think too much of speech, which is but the shell of thought.

Our silence might be better than our voices if our solitude was spent with God.

We should all know more, live nearer to God, and grow in grace, if we were more alone. Meditation chews the cud and extracts the real nutriment from the mental food gathered elsewhere.

As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer.

Groans that words cannot express are often prayers that God cannot refuse.

Christ sometimes delays His help so He may test our faith and energize our prayers. Our boat may be tossed by the waves while he continues to sleep, but He will awake before it sinks.

...goals not bathed in prayer or brought in humility before the Lord turn out to be downright useless. They don't go anywhere. They don't accomplish anything.

Here now in his triumph where all things falter, Stretched out on the spoils that his own hand spread, As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.

In the history of mankind, no single person yet has learned to swim by having the strokes explained. At some point, they dive in.

They had learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

If boys would think, it would be well to give them less classwork and more opportunity for thought.

Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world.Morning arrives and that's it.Sunlight darkens the earth.

I know none of this seems very believable. It probably doesn't even make sense. But for once in your life, please, I am asking you to trust me. Trust yourself.

God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart.

Giving without expectation leads to receiving without limitation.

Make the right choicesFor the right reasonsand the right things will happen.

Recognizing that God exists in all of us is the first step toward genuine kindness.

Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life.

Usually when someone is angry we hear their angry words. Instead, try hearing the unspoken, “I am scared, I am frustrated, I am insecure, I am vulnerable, I am threatened.

Controlling unwanted thoughts is not the problem. Believing, thrusting, and taking direction from them is.

In order to reach for the stars, you must have both feet planted firmly on the ground.

Make sure when you reach for the stars, you keep both feet firmly planted on the ground.

When I remove the layers that say I can't, I discover a burning ember that says I should, I can, and I will.

Belief can convert the mundane into the miraculous.

Gratitude opens the door to faith and faith opens the door to our relationship with God.

You won't find your soul in a textbook, self-help book, or buy it in a store. Sometimes, it's just a matter of looking past the anger, regret, and envy to see its smiling face.

When you don't ask for advice, but get it anyway, it has more to do with the needs and wants of the giver than you the receiver.

Action, not philosophy will get you going. Pick yourself up and move forward. That is the only way you can still enjoy life while you are blessed to be living it.

The only certainty in life is that it is uncertain.

The fear of being alone is a great obstacle to attracting the relationship that is right for you.

Staring at the light of another blinds the view of our own.

God's image is more than flesh and bones.

Guilt is to your health as a thief is to your wealth.

Jesus does not cherish an offense, loving us as well after the offense as before it.

Never go hungry while the daily bread of grace is on the table of mercy.

The one who never repents shall be the one who never sleeps.