Quotes from Charles Kingsley

Why should we long for the next world, before we are fit even for this one?

around which pigs and barefoot children grunted in loving communion of dirt.

For Nature, which has peopled the land with rational souls, may not have left the sea altogether barren of them

They had slipped past the southern point of Grenada in the night, and were at last within that fairy ring of islands, on which nature had concentrated all her beauty, and man all his sin.

And so make life, death and that vast forever One grand, sweet song.

Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again, Sweet wife. No, never come over again.

If thou art fighting against thy sins, so is God. On thy side is God who made all, and Christ who died for all and the Spirit who alone gives wisdom, purity, and nobleness.

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

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him

The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of a few great ecclesiastics, but on the faith and virtue of its individual members.

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

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.

Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.

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

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

Nothing is more expensive than penuriousness; nothing is more anxious than carelessness; and every duty which is bidden to wait, returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long.

Beauty is God's handwriting.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again, Sweet wife. No, never come over again.