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Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.


Charles Colson

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CHARLES STANLEY Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how...
CHARLES STANLEY What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
CHARLES SPURGEON You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working i...
CHARLES JENCKS Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
RAY CHARLES Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a fami...
CHARLES EASTMAN The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the g...
CHARLES STANLEY The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's natur...
CHARLES SPURGEON It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in...
CHARLES DICKENS