If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not "desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
[A]ll the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world,... could never invent, if all… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
If thou art fighting against thy sins, so is God. On thy side is God who made all, and Christ who died… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Do today's duty, fight to-day's temptation; and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things which you cannot see,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook — an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Madame Nature allows no dangerous classes, in the modern sense. She has, doubtless for some wise reason, no mercy for the weak.… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
And what is the joy of Christ? The joy and delight which springs forever in His great heart, from feeling that He… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Let us ask ourselves seriously and honestly, 'What do I believe after all? What manner of man am I after all? What… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
These glorious things-words-are man's right alone...Without words we should know no more of each other's hearts and thoughts than the dog knows… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
You must not say that this cannot be, or that that is contrary to nature. You do not know what Nature is,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
And how high is Christ's cross? As high as the highest heaven, and the throne of God, and the bosom of the… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
We shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
A fine lady; by which term I wish to express the result of that perfect education in taste and manner, down to every gesture,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share
If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share
Do you feel that you have lost your way in life? Then God Himself will show you your way. Are you utterly helpless, worn… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share
My friends, let us try to follow the Saviour's steps; let us remember all day long what it is to be men; that it… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share
We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook — an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share
He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share
Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share
Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share
... the heroism of the average mother. Ah! When I think of that broad fact, I gather hope again for poor humanity; and this… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share
“Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book. A message to us from the dead - from human souls we… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share
Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share
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