Charles Kingsley: Quotes about Christ

Charles Kingsley was English clergyman, historian and novelist. Explore interesting quotes on christ.
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“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.”

Charles Kingsley

Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 230.

“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

Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 84.

“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

Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 263.

“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

Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 72.

“Fools! who fancy Christ mistaken;
Man a tool to buy and sell;
Earth a failure, God-forsaken,
Ante-room of Hell.”

Charles Kingsley

The World's Age, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Attributed

“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.”

Charles Kingsley

Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 78.

“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

Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 171.

“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.