A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
In proportion as man gets back the spirit of manliness, which is self-sacrifice, affection, loyalty loan idea beyond himself, a God above… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of… — 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
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
It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe. And… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Music. – There is something very wonderful in music. Words are wonderful enough: but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not… — 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
I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never… — 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 Image
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 Image
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
... 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 Image
