Charles Kingsley quotes - page 4

Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment. (Charles Kingsley)
I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.
Charles Kingsley
Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
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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?"
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.
Charles Kingsley
O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee.
Charles Kingsley
We shall be made truly wise if we be made content content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understandthe habit of mind which theologians call, and rightly, faith in God.
Charles Kingsley
See the land, her Easter keeping,Rises as her Maker rose.Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping,Burst at last from winter snows.Earth with heaven above rejoices...
Charles Kingsley
Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid is coming. The loveliest fairy in the world and her name is Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby.
Charles Kingsley
We ought to reverence books to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things the teacher of all truth.
Charles Kingsley
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. (Charles Kingsley)