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Quotes by Charles Kingsley
My friends, let us try to follow the Saviour's steps; let us remember all day long what it is to be men; that it is to have every one whom we meet for our brother in the sight of God; that it is this, never to meet any one, however bad he may be, for whom we cannot say, "Christ died for that man, and Christ cares for him still. He is precious in God's eyes, and he shall be precious in mine also."— filed under Brotherhood
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?— filed under Christ's Sufferings and Death
And what is the joy of Christ? The joy and delight which springs forever in His great heart, from feeling that He is forever doing good; from loving all, and living for all; from knowing that if not all, yet millions on millions are grateful to Him, and will be forever.— filed under Christ the King
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; 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!" the— filed under Christ the Saviour
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.— filed under Church
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.— filed under Cross Of Christ
Do to-day'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.— filed under Duty
This is eternal life; a life of everlasting love, showing itself in everlasting good works; and whosoever lives that life, he lives the life of God, and hath eternal life.— filed under Eternal Life
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.— filed under Faith In Christ
Ah, my friends, we must look out and around to see what God is like. It is when we persist in turning our eyes inward, and prying curiously over our own imperfections, that we learn to make God after our own image, and fancy that our own darkness and hardness of heart are the patterns of His light and love.— filed under God
Whatever may be the mysteries of life and death, there is one mystery which the cross of Christ reveals to us, and that is the infinite and absolute goodness of God. Let all the rest remain a mystery so long as the mystery of the cross of Christ gives us faith for all the rest.— filed under God's Goodness
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 Holy Spirit who alone gives wisdom, purity, and nobleness.— filed under God's Guidance
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. O, shall I ever learn The lesson grand,— filed under God's Guidance
Because I believe in a God of absolute and unbounded love, therefore I believe in a loving anger of His which will and must devour and destroy all which is decayed, monstrous, abortive in His universe till all enemies shall be put under His feet, and God shall be all in all.— filed under God's Justice
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?" What sort of show then do I already make in the sight of Almighty God, who sees every man exactly as he is ?— filed under God's Omniscience
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.— filed under God's Omniscience
I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences."— filed under God's Providence
Be good my child, and let who will be clever ; Do noble deeds, not dream them all day long; And so inake life, death, and that vast forever One grand, sweet song.— filed under Goodness
Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.— filed under Goodness
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free. - There are two freedoms the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.— filed under Liberty
Let us be content to do little, if God sets us at little tasks. It is but pride and self-will which says, "Give me something huge to fight, - and I should enjoy that - but why make me sweep the dust?"— filed under Little Things
In proportion as man gets back the spirit of manliness, which is self-sacrifice, affection, loyalty to an idea beyond himself, a God above himself, so far will he rise above circumstances, and wield them at his will. دو— filed under Manliness
Therefore, let us be patient, patient; and let God our Father teach His own lesson, His own way. Let us try to learn it well and quickly; but do not let us fancy that He will ring the school-bell, and send us to play before our lesson is learnt.— filed under Patience
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.— filed under Praise
Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more outside respectability, he is just the old man, the same character at heart he ever was?— filed under Regeneration
It is God's purpose to save - to save His people from their sins, to purge out of them all hypocrisy, falsehood, injustice, and make of them honest men, true men, just men - men created anew after His likeness. And this is the meaning of His salvation; and is the only salvation worth having, for this life or the life to come.— filed under Salvation
Think about yourselves; about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay to you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. May God keep our hearts pure from that selfishness which is the root of all sin.— filed under Selfishness
Purge me, oh Lord, though it be with fire. Burn up the chaff of vanity and self-indulgence, of hasty prejudice, second-hand dogmas - husks which do not feed my soul, with which I cannot be content, of which I feel ashamed daily - and if there be any grain of wheat in me, any word or thought or power of action which may be of use as seed for my nation after me, gather it, oh Lord, into Thy garner.— filed under Trials
And therefore let us say, in utter faith, "Come as Thou seest best - but in whatsoever way Thou comest - even so come, Lord Jesus."— filed under Trust In Christ
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.— filed under Truth
Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their divineness 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. Truth needs no flowers of speech.— filed under Truth