Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsleywas a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives that failed but led to the working reforms of the progressive era. He was a friend and correspondent with Charles Darwin...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth12 June 1819
nature children ocean
You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.
book reading men
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
thanksgiving self excellence
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
life world wonderful
The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.
life wine fighting
I have fought my fight, I have lived my life, I have drunk my share of wine; From Trier to Coln there was never a knight Led a merrier life than mine.
letting-go patience father
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.
work christian-inspirational tools
Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
wise wine old-friends
Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.
change nature travel
The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
men drawing gentleman
A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
life hope men
The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.
thinking people want
If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.
country lonely light
It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.
inspirational-love lying night
Make it a rule and pray to God to help you keep it . . . never, if possible, to lie down at night without being able to say "I have made one human being at least a little wiser, a little happier, or a little better this day."