Elizabeth Charles Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
January 2, 1828 – March, 28, 1896.

Elizabeth Rundle Charles was an English writer. She was born at Tavistock, Devon, the daughter of John Rundle, MP. Some of her youthful poems won the praise of Tennyson, who read them in manuscript. In 1851 she married Andrew Paton Charles. She was affiliated with the Anglican Church, and died at Hampstead, London, in 1896.

It is the truth which is assailed in any age which tests our fidelity. It is to confess we are called, not merely to profess. If I profess, with the loudest voice and the clearest exposition, every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christianity. Where the battle rages the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battle-field besides is mere flight and disgrace to him if he flinches at that one point.

Elizabeth Charles
When we call on God, he bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little child.

Elizabeth Charles
- God
- Child
- Call On

The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.

Elizabeth Charles