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“Changeless march the stars above,
Changeless morn succeeds to even;
And the everlasting hills,
Changeless watch the changeless heaven.”

Charles Kingsley

The Saint's Tragedy (1848), Act II, scene 2.

“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?"”

Charles Kingsley

Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 388.

“They rowed her in across the rolling foam,
The cruel crawling foam,
The cruel hungry foam,
To her grave beside the sea:
But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home
Across the sands of Dee.”

Charles Kingsley

The Sands of Dee, st. 4.

“Science frees us in many ways…from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.”

Charles Kingsley

Sermon, The Meteor Shower http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/wtlf10h.htm (November 26, 1866),

“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.”

Charles Kingsley

Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 257.

“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.”

Charles Kingsley

Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 262.

“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?"”

Charles Kingsley

What sort of show then do I already make in the sight of Almighty God, who sees every man exactly as he is?

P. 276.
Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

“I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw [in Ireland] . . . I don't believe they are our fault. . . . But to see white chimpanzees is dreadful; if they were black, one would not feel it so much. . . .”

Charles Kingsley

In a letter written from Markree Castle, Sligo to his wife dated July 4th 1860. Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memoirs https://archive.org/details/charleskingsleyh00kingiala/page/308 (1877)

“Don't holla till you are out of the wood. This is a night for praying rather than boasting.”

Charles Kingsley

Hereward the wake, 1866.

“It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.”

Charles Kingsley