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• Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, he asks of thee works first and words after.

  Charles Kingsley

  Hymns, Long, Singing

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writer" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 456, 1895.

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• Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.

  Charles Kingsley

  Men, Dragons, Years

  Charles Kingsley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Kingsley (Illustrated)”, p.2515, Delphi Classics

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• Do you feel that you have lost your way in life? Then God Himself will show you your way. Are you utterly helpless, worn out, body and soul? Then God's eternal love is ready and willing to help you up, and revive you. Are you wearied with doubts and terrors? Then God's eternal light is ready to show you your way; God's eternal peace ready to give you peace. Do you feel yourself full of sins and faults? Then take heart; for God's unchangeable will is, to take away those sins, and purge you from those faults.

  Charles Kingsley

  God, Heart, Love Is

  Charles Kingsley (1859). “The Good News of God: Sermons”, p.369

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• And how high is Christ's cross? As high as the highest heaven, and the throne of God, and the bosom of the Father that bosom out of which forever proceed all created things. Ay, as high as the highest heaven! for if you will receive it when Christ hung upon the cross, heaven came down on earth, and earth ascended into heaven.

  Charles Kingsley

  Father, Forever, Heaven

  Charles Kingsley (1859). “The Good News of God: Sermons”, p.147

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• 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.

  Charles Kingsley

  Church, Holiness, Virtue

  Charles Kingsley (1856). “Hypatia ... The second edition”, p.11

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• Let us ask ourselves seriously and honestly, 'What do I believe after all? What manner of man am I after all? What sort of show would I make after all, if the people around me knew my heart and all my secret thoughts?" What sort of show then do I already make in the sight of Almighty God, who sees every man exactly as he is?'

  Charles Kingsley

  Believe, Heart, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writer" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 276, 1895.

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• In proportion as man gets back the spirit of manliness, which is self-sacrifice, affection, loyalty loan idea beyond himself, a God above himself, so far will he rise above circumstances, and wield them at his will.

  Charles Kingsley

  Loyalty, Sacrifice, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writer" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 405, 1895.

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• Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.

  Charles Kingsley

  Men, Weather, Grey

  'Ode to the North-East Wind'

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• Study nature as the countenance of God.

  Charles Kingsley

  Study, Countenance

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.102, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.

  Charles Kingsley

  Loyalty, Soul, Purpose

  Charles Kingsley (1855). “Westward ho!: The voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth”, p.180

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• The world is God's world, after all.

  Charles Kingsley

  World

  Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke (fict. name.) (1862). “Alton Locke”, p.303

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• Those clouds are angels' robes.

  Charles Kingsley

  Angel, Clouds, Robes

  Charles Kingsley (1875). “Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, &c”, p.34

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• Whatever may be the mysteries of life and death, there is one mystery which the cross of Christ reveals to us, and that is the infinite and absolute goodness of God. Let all the rest remain a mystery so long as the mystery of the cross of Christ gives us faith for all the rest.

  Charles Kingsley

  God, Long, Life And Death

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Out of the Deep: Words for the Sorrowful: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.98, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

  Charles Kingsley

  Citizens, And Love, Virtue

  Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.157, Cambridge University Press

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• Toil is the true knight's pastime.

  Charles Kingsley

  Knights, Toil, Pastime

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Saint's Tragedy: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.30, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where;
  One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there

  Charles Kingsley

  Age, Comfort, World

  Charles Kingsley (1858). “Andromeda: And Other Poems”, p.94

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• For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.

  Charles Kingsley

  Life, Sleep, Men

  Charles Kingsley (1872). “Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, Etc”, p.212

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• 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.

  Charles Kingsley

  Men, Holy, Goodness

  Charles Kingsley (1874). “David: Five Sermons”, p.12

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• Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those conceptions of form and number which every human being possesses; and any person of average intellect can make himself a fair mathematician if he will only pay continuous attention; in plain English, think enough about the subject.

  Charles Kingsley

  Science, Men, Thinking

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Scientific Lectures and Essays”, p.93, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

  Charles Kingsley

  Truth, Sake, Virtue

  Reviewing J. A. Froude's History of England, in 'Macmillan's Magazine' January 1864

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• Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?

  Charles Kingsley

  Fighting, Dust, Giving

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.204, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The righteousness which is by faith in Christ is a loving heart and a loving life, which every man will long to lead who believes really in Jesus Christ.

  Charles Kingsley

  Jesus, Believe, Heart

  Charles Kingsley (1859). “The Good News of God: Sermons”, p.42

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• 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 is to have every one whom we meet for our brother in the sight of God; that it is this, never to meet anyone, however bad he may be, for whom we cannot say: "Christ died for that man, and Christ cares for him still. He is precious in God's eyes, and he shall be precious in mine also".

  Charles Kingsley

  Brother, Eye, Men

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• Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?

  Charles Kingsley

  Soul, Youth, Mercy

  Charles Kingsley (1858). “Andromeda: And Other Poems”, p.22

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

  Charles Kingsley

  Self, Long, Miracle

  Charles Kingsley, Frederick Denison Maurice (1848). “The Saint's Tragedy; Or the True Story of Elizabeth of Hungary, Landgravine of Thuringia: Saint of the Romish Calendar. With a Preface by Professor Maurice”, p.126

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