H.W. Charles Quotes
In life, you will always be faced with a series of God-ordained opportunities brilliantly disguised as problems and challenges.
Often, under the layers of our maturity is a child’s insecurity screaming for love and attention.
Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raisethemselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
The champions of liberty have the medal for any necklace. (Les champions de la liberte - Ont la médaille pour tout collier)
America's always been a great place to be crazy. It just used to be harder to make a living that way.
The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.
Still, Luce held firm to the belief that quiet and solitude were good for you, offering peace, or at least hope for peace.
Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God's warriors than standing still.
Flesh is willing, but the Soul requiresSisyphean patience for its song, Time, Hippocrates remarked, is shortand Art is long.
It's nice when you can ride the inspirational wave, but as a writer, you'll also find how fast you can lose that wave. You must persevere.
If you life is an example of glorifying God, others won't see your good works and glorify YOU, because they'll know what you are doing is for God's glory.
If your motive is in any way to promote greatness for yourself, you're in the wrong calling.
...ask yourself, "Who's getting the glory in this ministry?" You see, if we do ministry OUR way, it won't be for His glory, because our ways are not His ways.
They like to use those fancy words. They don't like to say “raped, '” he said. “They say “misdeed, ' “inappropriate touching, ' “mistake.' That's insulting. I'm not a mistake.
Faith is the road, but communion with Jesus is the well from which the pilgrim drinks.
I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: "Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him." And they cried out in a great voice: "He made us." CS Lewis
J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God.
The only restorative for a guilty conscience is a sight of Jesus suffering on the cross.
The more loftily we see Christ enthroned, and the more lowly we are when bowing before the foot of the throne, the more truly shall we be prepared to act our part towards Him.
It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune.
The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough.
When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come.
Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour.
The ministry of the church is a genuine concern for others. We need to stop talking about it and start doing it. Rise.Rise and shine, friend. Everyone you meet today is on heaven's Most Wanted list.
Fear uncovers the impossible, while faith reveals the possible.
When we make the unfamiliar familiar, make the unknown known, make the uncomfortable comfortable, and believe the unbelievable, we can then expect the unexpected.
We don’t vote for people because they are the exact embodiment of our values, but because they are likely to be the most responsive to them.
Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty--these are Christian values.
I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend.
The surplus of the heart overflows from a smile. (Le surplus du coeur - Déborde d'un sourire)
Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
In the sympathy of Christ we find a sustaining power.
Zeal is more often checked after long years in the same service than when novelty gives a charm to our work.
If you can continue to smile through hardship and pain, then your moment will come…just be patient.
There are good ways and bad ways to get my attention. Whacking on my ego with a crowbar will get my attention, sure, but it's not going to leave me well disposed to the messenger.
Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.
Unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making.
A man may follow vanity as truly in the counting-house as in the theatre. If he be spending his life in amassing wealth, he passes his days in a vain show.
Being stress and anxiety free is a human preset, I just show you how to 'flick the switch' to off. Permanent stress and anxiety recovery is possible quickly and simply despite what many are told.
All earth's candles cannot make daylight if the Sun of Righteousness be eclipsed. He is the soul of our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life.
We write "I love you" on the mouth by the kisses that touch it. (On écrit "je t'aime" sur bouche - Par les bisous qui la touchent.)
The kiss is neither returned nor exchanged, because it's free. (Le baiser n'est ni repris - Ni échangé, car gratuit.)
A kiss is the morning dew which stand up. (Un baiser, c'est la rosée - Du matin qui s'est levé)
A letter to the beloved is like the ink kissing the paper. (Une lettre à l'aimée, c'est - L'encre embrassant le papier)