Top 86 Charles Martin Quotes
#1. 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.
Charles Martin
#2. Tucker, I want to tell you a secret." She curled my hand into a fist and showed it to me. "Life is a battle, but you can't fight it with your fists." She gently tapped me on the chin with my fist and then put her hand on my chest, " You got to figt it with your heart.
Charles Martin
#3. I'm not leaving you. Not going it alone. Not looking at the memory of you everytime I close my eyes.
Charles Martin
#4. The problem with a wish list was what it told you about the person who wrote it. If it's honest, it's a rock-bottom, barebones, clear shot all the way to someone's soul.
Hats can do the same thing.
Charles Martin
#6. Maybe broken is what happens before you become unbroken.
Charles Martin
#7. How many times had I wanted to scream the same way? To purge myself and release the pain in my soul. But somehow, I never had. Maybe those who felt free to do so were only those who didn't posses the guilt of having put the pain there in the first place.
Charles Martin
#8. A change in paperwork [birth certificate] can't erase words stamped on the human heart.
Charles Martin
#9. But maybe life is like that - you never know when something that's been hidden is going to rise up and bite you, or glow with a golden hue.
Charles Martin
#10. What do you dream?
To live with and alongside ... rather than without and alone.
Charles Martin
#12. Indifference is the curse of this age. Indifference is evil, and it couldn't be farther from the heart of God.
Afterword - On Digging a Well p. 359
Charles Martin
#13. The stone had been rolled away ... That fact alone demands a response.
Charles Martin
#14. You can put your boots in the oven, but that doesn't make them biscuits. - You can say whatever you want about something, but that doesn't change what it is.
Charles Martin
#15. Forgive your enemies ... it messes with their heads.
Charles Martin
#16. 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.
Charles Martin
#17. Many times in our lives, we act like He's still dead. But several times today, we've testified that He's not. So which is it? Why say one thing with your mouth and yet live another with your life? If He's alive, act like it. He either is or He isn't. You can't be half-alive.
Charles Martin
#18. Somebody told me when I first got in this business that people believe what they read until somebody prints something that contradicts it. Then they believe both.
Charles Martin
#19. This is love with legs.' My father used to say that you can tell someone you love them until you're blue in the face, but until they see that walked out, they have no idea what it means. Hence, 'love with legs.'" A wide smile spread across her face. "Every day he'd climb out
Charles Martin
#20. He traced a line in the dirt with his toe. 'This is a battlefield. Has been since Cain killed Abel. And don't let it get complicated. Gray it ain't. It's black and white. Good versus evil. You might as well choose sides right now.
Charles Martin
#21. While her emotions were very real and they gnawed at her with a raw sincerity, she was listening to something deeper. She was listening to her will, not letting what she felt dictate what she would do. Didn't let it dictate her life.
Charles Martin
#22. I guess sometimes it's got to hurt before it can get better."
I nodded. "Hearts are like that.
Charles Martin
#23. Sometimes good judgement comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgement.
Charles Martin
#24. Forgiveness is a tough thing. Both in the offering ... and the accepting.
Charles Martin
#25. This ... living with a broken heart is living half dead, and that doesn't mean you're half alive. It means you're half dead. And ... that's no way to live.
Charles Martin
#26. Reese, your books might not tell you this, so I will. Every heart has two parts, the part that pumps and the part that loves. If you're going to spend your life fixing broken hearts, then learn about both. You can't just fix one with no concern for the other.
Charles Martin
#27. Identity does not grow out of action until it has taken root in belonging.
Charles Martin
#28. Some people take all the pain they've been knowing their whole life and pack it down inside them where it festers, oozing pus. Gangrene of the soul. That sore then becomes them. It's what bubbles up. You can smell it.
Charles Martin
#29. I know I'm not alone and I don't walk alone. That I won't. When the thin whisper of a veil between what I can't see and what I can is pulled back and for one brief second I get a glimpse of what will be. Where the words 'might' and 'hope' intersect.
Charles Martin
#31. Sometimes it's hard to see what could be, what we hope for, through the hurting part of what is, 'cause sometimes stuff hurts so much that we can't see nothing. But then sometimes what we hope for, well, seems like if we hope it long enough, hard enough, deep enough, it becomes what it.
Charles Martin
#32. If my life were still a movie, this is the part that would end up on the cutting room floor. We were all just fill-ins for a long-running soap opera. The actors changed, but the story seldom did. Certainly not the action.
Charles Martin
#33. She cried easily. Evidence that she felt much, and most often for other people. A rare and beauty filled gift.
Charles Martin
#35. For all my life, I had stored my love in a a place down inside me that had no outlet. I contained it there. Kept it to myself. Afraid to let it out. Thought if I did, it'd seep out and I'd be left with none. I didn't have much to start with.
Charles Martin
#36. If God can make a firefly's butt light up like a star, then anything is possible. Anything.
Charles Martin
#37. When you laugh ... I want to smile. And when you cry ... ' She brushed the tears off of my face. 'I want the tears to roll down my cheeks.' She shook her head once, whispering, 'I'm not leaving you ... won't.
Charles Martin
#38. 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.
Charles Martin
#39. deep. Something only God can do. He both broke and filled my heart at the same time. I still don't understand that. Over
Charles Martin
#40. As strange as it sounds, broken people are fixed by other broken people. It's God's economy.
Charles Martin
#41. I am speaking from experience when I say that 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.
Charles Martin
#42. Don't let that girl slip away." A single shake. "Lonely is no way to live." He tapped me on the chest. "And you been lonely since the moment I met you.
Charles Martin
#43. That's life. You take the bad with the good. Rise up through it. Live in the midst of it. It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is. Don't let the bad leave you thinking like there ain't no good. There is, and lots of it, too.
Charles Martin
#44. That which we cannot speak about, we must pass over in silence. At the time
Charles Martin
#45. No matter how screwed up the artist might be, there's still the chance that they can produce art that people like us hang on our wall and talk about long after their death. That the sum is greater than one part. That maybe one incident does not a life make.
Charles Martin
#46. Well ... letting the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it in.
Charles Martin
#47. Pessimist, are you?"
"I'm a doctor. That makes me an optimist with realistic notions.
Charles Martin
#48. Time to paint your but white and run with antelope-in English- Stop arguing and do as your told.
Charles Martin
#49. If the worst is a possibility, then you keep it on the table. Don't hide from it. Don't run. It can happen. And if and when it does, you need to have thought about it ahead of time. That way you're not crushed when your worst thought becomes your reality.
Charles Martin
#50. A song is a light we shine on others, not a light we shine on us.
Charles Martin
#51. You put a new heart in Emma a long time ago, it just wasn't the kind you were thinking of." He laughed to himself. "Hope is an amazing thing. I saw it in Emma, saw it with my own eyes.
Charles Martin
#52. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes. This ... is goodbye. But not out last hello.
Charles Martin
#53. More than that, I liked being known, and for the first time in my life, I was known by another. I'm not saying I liked what she knew about me, not proud of the bits and pieces, but somehow she was standing inside my skin and yet I didn't experience shame at her reflection.
Charles Martin
#57. When we're down and the momentum is stacked against us. Those are the moments when we find out what we're made of. When we learn to trust and lean on each other.
Charles Martin
#58. 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.
Charles Martin
#59. What I'm trying to say, and not doing a very good job at, is ... will you ride the river with me?
Charles Martin
#60. In the history of mankind, no single person yet has learned to swim by having the strokes explained. At some point, they dive in.
Charles Martin
#61. All hearts have but one request. One simple, unspoken, undeniable need. One undeniable fear.
To be known.
Charles Martin
#62. And they ate supper before they said grace ... Oh, um ... she moved into his house, stayed awhile, and then they got married.
Charles Martin
#63. Augustine said it best: You stir man to take pleasure in praising You, because You have made us for Yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in You.
Charles Martin
#64. Child, the Lord gives you what you need, when you need it.
Charles Martin
#65. If anything in the universe reflects the fingerprint of God, it is the human heart" ... It derives no benefit from the blood it pumps making it the most unselfish of organs ... it is also the most courageous and faithful." (124, 126) - Reese
Charles Martin
#66. (Water) ... no matter how wide or deep you cut it ... it has no memory. No scar ... it's all future, no past.
Charles Martin
#67. When I find myself wondering what hell must be like, I'm reminded of the terminals in Atlanta. Thousands of people, most of whom don't know one another, crammed into a limited space, all in a hurry and trying desperately to get out.
Charles Martin
#68. We're all fallen people in a fallen world.
Where does a man find healing amid so many broken places? How does he find love in the ruins and vine-wrapped shattered pieces of his own soul?
Because love's springing up through the rocks.
Charles Martin
#69. If your knuckles are bloodier than your knees,then you're fighting the wrong battle.
Charles Martin
#70. Ashley tried to speak. Tried again and still could not find the words. Finally she wiped her eyes, pressed her ear to my chest, and whispered. 'Give me all the pieces.
Charles Martin
#71. They say God made man, but Sam Colt made them equal.
Charles Martin
#72. Since that moment, I'd bought into the idea that isolation would ease my pain and indifference was the remedy for rejection. Clarity was quick in coming. Isolation is a prison and indifference is a lie. Neither work.
Charles Martin
#74. Most people enter a library and don't hear a thing. Eerie silence. I stand between the shelves and hear ten thousand conversations occurring all at once. Each ushering an invitation. The noise is raucous.
Charles Martin
#76. The only monster you need to worry about in this life is the one that stares at you from the mirror each morning. You tame him, make friends with him, and the rest of life is nothing you can't handle.
Charles Martin
#77. I sat in that room and realized that you can cut off a finger, cut off a hand, even cut off a leg, but if you take a woman's breast, you are cutting more than just a body part.
Charles Martin
#78. Never make it without the compass. In the trees, I'd lose all sense of perspective. Direction. Maybe life is like that.
Charles Martin
#79. There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Charles Martin
#80. The library was magical because every time I walked through the door, there were literally thousands of voices ready and willing to have a conversation with me. I walked through the door, stared at all those stacks and bindings, and whispered, Tell me a story.
Charles Martin
#81. A lot of dead writers feed my mind with their ever-present whisperings.
Charles Martin
#82. I have come to kno one thing without ay shadow of doubt: if anything in this universe reflects the fingerprint of God, it is the human heart
Charles Martin
#84. Remember, there's an inverse relationship between your head and your heart. If your head swells, your heart shrinks. Tucker,
Charles Martin
#85. 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.
Charles Martin
#86. From out of your heart, you speak.
-Emma, When Crickets Cry
Charles Martin
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
