Charles Kingsley

Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

— Charles Kingsley

Life is too short for mean anxieties.

— Charles Kingsley

Love can make us fiends as well as angels.

— Charles Kingsley

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

— Charles Kingsley

The world is God's world, after all.

— Charles Kingsley

Toil is the true knight's pastime.

— Charles Kingsley

Study nature as the countenance of God.

— Charles Kingsley

“give the devil rope, and he will hang himself.”

— Charles Kingsley

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

— Charles Kingsley

Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.

— Charles Kingsley

In the light of fuller day, Of purer science, holier laws.

— Charles Kingsley

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

— Charles Kingsley

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

— Charles Kingsley

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

— Charles Kingsley

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

— Charles Kingsley

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

— Charles Kingsley

The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at…

— Charles Kingsley

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

— Charles Kingsley

Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot…

— Charles Kingsley

Every Winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts,…

— Charles Kingsley

The righteousness which is by faith in Christ is a loving heart and a loving life, which every man will long to…

— Charles Kingsley

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden…

— Charles Kingsley

Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God…

— Charles Kingsley

Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more…

— Charles Kingsley

My friends, let us try to follow the Saviour's steps; let us remember all day long what it is to be men;…

— Charles Kingsley

If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all…

— Charles Kingsley

... the heroism of the average mother. Ah! When I think of that broad fact, I gather hope again for poor humanity;…

— Charles Kingsley

Let us ask ourselves seriously and honestly, 'What do I believe after all? What manner of man am I after all? What…

— Charles Kingsley

“Stop!" said the Irishwoman. "I have one more word for you both; for you will both see me again before all is…

— Charles Kingsley

Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do…

— Charles Kingsley

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful.  Beauty is God’s handwriting—a way-side sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair…

— Charles Kingsley

Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their di- vineness by sick-beds and in every-day work, and do…

— Charles Kingsley

And no one has the right to say that no water-babies exist, till they have seen no water-babies existing; which is quite…

— Charles Kingsley

“here, away from courts, among a people who should bless me as their benefactor and deliverer—what golden days might be mine! And…

— Charles Kingsley

“His last words had hit the Jesuits hard. They had put the poor cobweb-spinners in mind of the humiliating fact, which they…

— Charles Kingsley

So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny…

— Charles Kingsley

“In fact, the fairies had turned him into a water-baby. A water-baby?  You never heard of a water-baby.  Perhaps not.  That is…

— Charles Kingsley

Never trample on any soul though it may be lying in the veriest mire; for that last spark of self-respect is its…

— Charles Kingsley

“He will know better when he has outgrown this same callow trick of honesty, and learnt of the great goddess Detraction how…

— Charles Kingsley

Do you feel that you have lost your way in life? Then God Himself will show you your way. Are you utterly…

— Charles Kingsley