Charles Kingsley Quotes

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All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

Happiness, Running, Reality

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A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Charles Kingsley

Love, Friendship, Best Friend

Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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.

Charles Kingsley

Freedom, Men, Two

Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.289, Cambridge University Press

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If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.

Charles Kingsley

Respect, Thinking, People

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Charles Kingsley

Thanksgiving, Self, Excellence

Charles Kingsley (2008). “Town and Country Sermons: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.162, ReadHowYouWant.com

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I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

Charles Kingsley

Faith, Christian, Want

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Nothing is so infectious as example.

Charles Kingsley

Example

Charles Kingsley (1873). “Selections from Some of the Writings of the Rev. C. Kingsley, M.A.”, p.97

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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.

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Beauty, Christian, Flower

"Charles Kingsley: his letters and memories of his life". Ed. by his wife,

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

Charles Kingsley

Kindness, Reality, Generosity

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Make it a rule and pray to God to help you keep it . . . never, if possible, to lie down at night without being able to say "I have made one human being at least a little wiser, a little happier, or a little better this day."

Charles Kingsley

Inspirational Love, Lying, Night

Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Music. – There is something very wonderful in music. Words are wonderful enough: but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words do: it speaks straight to our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls. Music soothes us, stirs us up; it puts noble feelings into us; it melts us to tears, we know not how: – it is a language by itself, just as perfect, in its way, as speech, as words; just as divine, just as blessed.

Charles Kingsley

Music, Blessed, Heart

"The Good News of God".

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

Charles Kingsley

Fighting, Temptation, Understanding

"The Good News of God".

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A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.

Charles Kingsley

Blessed, Fighting, Self

Charles Kingsley (1881). “The Works of Charles Kingsley”

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

Charles Kingsley

Soul, Self Improvement, Human Nature

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The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Charles Kingsley

Life, World, Wonderful

Charles Kingsley (2016). “The Water Babies”, p.39, Charles Kingsley

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Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

Charles Kingsley

Work, Christian Inspirational, Tools

Charles Kingsley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Kingsley (Illustrated)”, p.4065, Delphi Classics

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All but God is changing day by day.

Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley (1875). “Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, &c”, p.12

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The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

Charles Kingsley

Life, Hope, Men

Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Good News of God: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.289, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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.

Charles Kingsley

Children, Simplicity, Wish

Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

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

Charles Kingsley

Music, Angel, Speech

Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.87, ReadHowYouWant.com

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What is the commonest, and yet the least remembered form of heroism? The heroism of an average mother. Ah! when I think of that broad fact I gather hope again for poor humanity, and this dark world looks bright, this diseased world looks wholesome to me once more, because, whatever else it is or is not full of, it is at least full of mothers.

Charles Kingsley

Mother, Dark, Thinking

"Daily Thoughts".

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Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

Charles Kingsley

Motivational, Brother, Book

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Life is too short for mean anxieties.

Charles Kingsley

Life Is Too Short, Mean, Worry

Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.164, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Never trample on any soul though it may be lying in the veriest mire; for that last spark of self-respect is its only hope, its only chance; the last seed of a new and better life: the voice of God that whispers to it: "You are not what you ought to be, and you are not what you can be. You are still God's child, still an immortal soul. You may rise yet. and fight a good fight yet, and be a man once more, after the likeness of God who made you, and Christ who died for you!

Charles Kingsley

Children, Lying, Fighting

Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Good News of God: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.302, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Born: June 12, 1819
Died: January 23, 1875
Occupation: Professor
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