I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences. Charles Kingsley More Quotes by Charles Kingsley More Quotes From Charles Kingsley Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men. Charles Kingsley greyweathermen All but God is changing day by day. Charles Kingsley The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again. Charles Kingsley naturechangetravel If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands Charles Kingsley ifs-andhumoroushands 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 foreverheavenfather If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you. Charles Kingsley wantpeoplethinking Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust? Charles Kingsley fightingdustgiving 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 dragonsmenyears Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you. Charles Kingsley possessionmeanworld 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 fightinglyingchildren All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me. Charles Kingsley butterflypast 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 godheartlove-is What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me. Charles Kingsley want 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. Charles Kingsley wickedtruthheart All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge, where salmon wait for Autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west. Charles Kingsley autumnbridgesbook Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back. Charles Kingsley returnprocrastinationwaiting Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones. Charles Kingsley invisiblenaturelaw 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 holinessvirtuechurch Nothing like one honest look, one honest thought of Christ upon His cross. That tells us how much He has been through, how much He endured, how much He conquered, how much God loved us, who spared not His only begotten Son, but freely gave Him for us. Dare we doubt such a God? Dare we murmur against such a God? Charles Kingsley doubtlooksson Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their di- vineness by sick-beds and in every-day work, and do not darken your mind with intellectual puzzles, which may breed disbelief, but can never breed vital religion or practical usefulness. Charles Kingsley sicktruthmind
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