Charles Kingsley: Use

“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.”

Charles Kingsley

Life , Happiness

“Pain is no evil,
Unless it conquer us.”

Charles Kingsley

St. Maura, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Attributed

Pain , Evil

“So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny and the railroad, Cunard's liners and the electric telegraph, are to me, if not to you, signs that we are, on some points at least, in harmony with the universe; that there is a mighty spirit working among us, who cannot be your anarchic and destroying Devil, and therefore may be the Ordering and Creating God.”

Charles Kingsley

Yeast: A Problem http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10364/10364-h/10364-h.htm (1848), ch. 5.

God , Universe

“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.

Love , God , Christ

“And therefore let us say, in utter faith, "Come as Thou seest best — but in whatsoever way Thou comest — even so come, Lord Jesus."”

Charles Kingsley

Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 593.

Faith , Way

“Tell us not that the world is governed by universal law; the news is not comfortable, but simply horrible, unless you can tell us, or allow others to tell us, that there is a loving giver, and a just administrator of that law.”

Charles Kingsley

Sermon, The Meteor Shower.

Love , World , Law , Universe

“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?”

Charles Kingsley

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

God , People , Secret , Heart

“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.

God , Fight

“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),

Way , Feeling , Science

“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.

Life , Death , God , Faith

“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)

Secret , Making love , People , Heart