Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsleywas a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives that failed but led to the working reforms of the progressive era. He was a friend and correspondent with Charles Darwin...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth12 June 1819
hymns long singing
Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, he asks of thee works first and words after.
act chief comfort happy luxury though
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about
country lonely light
It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.
All but God is changing day by day.
ashamed divine germ noble
To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ of the first upgrowth of all virtue.
arouse comfort dead except hearts human living man message miles open sheets souls speak teach terrify thousands wonderful
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us 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, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.
blood boot dog goose hey lad round trees
When all the world is young, lad, / And all the trees are green; / And every goose a swan, lad / And every lass a queen; / Then hey for boot and horse, lad, / And round the world away: / Young blood must have its course, lad,/ And every dog his day.
dogs dull lame meet though work
Do the work that's nearest, / Though it's dull at whiles, / Helping, when we meet them,/ Lame dogs over stiles.
above darkness easter heaven last maker winter
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...
across call cattle home sands
O Mary, go and call the cattle home / And call the cattle home, / And call the cattle home,/ Across the sands of Dee.
cat choking ways
More ways of killing a cat than choking her with cream.
free man
There are two freedoms; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is free to do what he ought.
men dragons years
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.
jesus believe heart
The righteousness which is by faith in Christ is a loving heart and a loving life, which every man will long to lead who believes really in Jesus Christ.