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 More Quotes by Charles Kingsley More Quotes From Charles Kingsley Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland. Charles Kingsley loyalty purpose soul Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God. Charles Kingsley duty voice heaven If thou art fighting against thy sins, so is God. On thy side is God who made all, and Christ who died for all and the Spirit who alone gives wisdom, purity, and nobleness. Charles Kingsley fighting giving art 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 brother motivational book For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue. Charles Kingsley germs noble firsts It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe. And it is true that you may see simple laboring men as thorough gentlemen as any duke, simply because they have learned to fear God; and, fearing him, to restrain themselves, which is the very root and essence of all good breeding. Charles Kingsley simple europe men No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself. Charles Kingsley plagiarism thinker simple Study nature as the countenance of God. Charles Kingsley countenance study Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment. Charles Kingsley lasts earth heaven In the four hundred and thirteenth year of the Christian era, some three hundred miles above Alexandria, the young monk Philammon was sitting on the edge of a low range of inland cliffs, crested with drifting sand. Charles Kingsley christian book years Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down. Charles Kingsley sailing inspirational funny In the light of fuller day, Charles Kingsley light law science It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him. Charles Kingsley lions said Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself. Charles Kingsley speech music angel Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His mercy is over all His works. Charles Kingsley comfort may littles He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind. Charles Kingsley mind discovery water I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being. Charles Kingsley equality ants justice For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward. Charles Kingsley rewards virtue science 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 men science thinking Men must work, and women must weep. Charles Kingsley work men
