The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“A spirit that was once a man could hardly feel stranger or lonelier, going unrecognized among mankind, than I feel.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Your haughty religious people would have held their heads up to see me as I am tonight, and preached of flames and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“What have paupers to do with soul or spirit? It's quite enough that we let 'em have live bodies. If you had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Too much of the old Puritan spirit exists in these parts to the present hour; but its influence has not tended, that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott had recently… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The Christmas season reminds us that a demonstration of religion is always much better than a definition of it...especially in front of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“They are man's,' said the spirit, looking down upon them. 'And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Wherever religion is resorted to, as a strong drink, and as an escape from the dull monotonous round of home, those of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Mature affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens Copy Share
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“evening, they began to think that although he could never hope to be an Englishman, still it would be hard to visit that affliction… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“Besides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“The wheels rolled on, and rolled down by the Monument, and by the Tower; and by the Docks; down by Ratcliffe, and by Rotherhithe;… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“The three customers pulled off their hats to Madame Defarge, with three flourishes. She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share
“Mr. Pickwick was a philosopher, but philosophers are only men in armour, after all.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share
