Quotes from 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 patient while they are overloaded.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.

All but God is changing day by day.

Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.

The world is God's world, after all.

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

Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more outside respectability, he is just the old man, the same character at heart he ever was?

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.

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.

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

O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

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

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them.

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.