209 Quotes by Charles Kingsley

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?

Beauty is God’s handwriting. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair day, every fair flower.

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

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.

Nature’s deepest laws, her own true laws, are her invisible ones.

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

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

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

Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not “desperately wicked,” it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.