Charles Kingsley Quotes

The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.

I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do.

Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His mercy is over all His works.

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not "desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.

Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.

Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones.

Toil is the true knight's pastime.

This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.

And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where; One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there

Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?

If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.

Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.

I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.

No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.

I have fought my fight, I have lived my life, I have drunk my share of wine; From Trier to Coln there was never a knight Led a merrier life than mine.

The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of a few great ecclesiastics, but on the faith and virtue of its individual members.

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.

The righteousness which is by faith in Christ is a loving heart and a loving life, which every man will long to lead who believes really in Jesus Christ.

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

Love is sentimental measles.

A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.

What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.

All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me.

I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences.

Study nature as the countenance of God.

He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.

It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.

Men must work, and women must weep.

Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.

Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.

Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.

Love can make us fiends as well as angels.

[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm.

The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.

Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?

There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?

Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I

If thou art fighting against thy sins, so is God. On thy side is God who made all, and Christ who died for all and the Spirit who alone gives wisdom, purity, and nobleness.

Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.

The world goes up and the world goes down And the sunshine follows the rain And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again.

Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.

Do noble things do not dream them all day long.

Be good sweet maid and let who can be clever.