H.W. Charles Quotes
No sooner is there a good thing in the world, than a division is necessary.
Throw away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality.
Identity is theft, don’t trust anyone whose state vector hasn’t forked for more than a gigasecond, change is the only constant, et bloody cetera.
If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one's spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life.
I was always a killer. It was my skill, and they’d taught me well. She taught me love.
Yours are the only shoes made to walk your journey.
It is the way one treats his inferiors more than the way he treats his equals which reveals one’s real character.
Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's thechoices we make that define who we really are.
Today is the sum of all the choices we made in our yesterdays. Choose wisely, for a secure, happy, and meaningful tomorrow.
Sometimes you have to make choices, and they're imperfect, but they're the only choices you can make and live with yourself.
Contentment is not a power that may be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually.
We lose much consolation by the habit of reading His promises for the whole church, instead of taking them directly home to ourselves.
If I were a blind man and were told by you that you possess a faculty called sight, I should be unreasonable if I railed at you as a conceited enthusiast.
The remembrance of a woman is longer than a tear. (Le souvenir d'une femme - Est plus long qu'une larme.)
Cigarette kisses the flame. But the mouth kisses the woman. (Cigarette embrasse la flamme. - Mais la bouche embrasse la femme.)
Hitler not from a woman is born, but from the men bitterness.(Hitler n'est pas né d'une femme, - Mais de l'amertume des hommes)
What good the eyes without anything behind them ? (A quoi bon les yeux - Sans rien derrière eux ?)
Idleness and solitude led to these dramatics: an ordinary turd indulging himself as the chief of sinners.
He trusted the cosmos – but not necessarily the powers that held sway on earth.
Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne.
Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest.
Constantinople had been changing for sometime before the Young Turks got hold of it. It would continue to change long after they had gone.
Confession is the giving up of ALL self-righteousness.
He called himself Jack, a plain handshake of a name, a far cry from the Clive Staples he had been christened, and to be Jack was the hard work of a lifetime.
As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.
Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.
Prayer is the forerunner of mercy.
Alas! it is but little we have done for our Master's glory. Our winter has lasted all too long. We are as cold as ice when we should feel a summer's glow and bloom with sacred flowers.
It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion.
Those that are too refined to be simple need to be refined again.
It is not great counts God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.
My own spirit, soul, and body are my nearest machinery for sacred service.
The very precariousness of weather excites a large amount of earnest prayer.
Integrity comes not from privilege, textbooks, or profession, but from being grounded in humility.
Good temper in the business of daily life is like oil to machinery.
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Spurgeon challenges us to go to the river of our experience, to pull up bulrushes, and to place them in the Ark of our memory, experiencing again the wonder that allowed our infant faith to flourish.
The city (of Vienna) had an unerring tradition of celebrating some of it's greatest composers after it had around them to die in poverty.
To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus.
Who underestimates is buried in the optimism of the deads. (Qui sous-estime s'enterre - Dans l'optimisme des morts.)
This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST.
We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis