Charles Kingsley: Quotes about God

Charles Kingsley was English clergyman, historian and novelist. Explore interesting quotes on god.
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“Are gods more ruthless than mortals?
Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?”

Andromeda, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“Fools! who fancy Christ mistaken;
Man a tool to buy and sell;
Earth a failure, God-forsaken,
Ante-room of Hell.”

The World's Age, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“Would that we two were lying
Beneath the churchyard sod,
With our limbs at rest in the green earth's breast,
And our souls at home with God.”

The Saint's Tragedy (1848), Act ii, scene ix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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