125 Quotes by Charles Martin

Forgiveness offered -especially when so undeserved – cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less break... love did what hatred can not and never will.

Football is not played with strong arms and fast feet, it’s played with heart. Grow your heart and your arms and feet will follow... You play long enough and you might find yourself in a place where your arms and feet fail you... That’s when you find out what’s in your heart.

Time to paint your but white and run with antelope-in English- Stop arguing and do as your told.

Emma once told me that some people spend their whole lives trying to outrun God, maybe get someplace He’s never been. She shook her head and smiled, wondering why. Trouble is, she said, they spend a lifetime searching and running, and when they arrive, they find He’s already been there.

Hope is not the result of medicine or anything that science has to offer. It is a flower that sprouts and grows when others pour water upon it. I think sometimes that I spent so much time worrying about how to protect and strengthen the flower – even going so far as to graft in a new stem and root system – that I forgot to simply water it.

Love is a choice. It’s a decision.′ She told us, ‘It flows into, through, and out of each person like a river. If you try to stop it, it’ll sneak around until It finds another heart and breaks through.

Waiting for somebody does that. It turns minutes to hours, hours to days, and days to several lifetimes.

You take the bad with the good, Rise up through it. Live in the mist of it. It’s the bad that lets you know ho good the good really is. Don’t let the bad leave you thinking like there ain’t any good. There is, and lots of it, too.

Don’t let the fear of what might be rob you of the promise of what can.