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What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.
Charles Kingsley
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Charles Kingsley
Age: 55 †
Born: 1819
Born: June 12
Died: 1875
Died: January 23
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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.
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There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
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Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each time, till as it were the panting earth, worn out with the fierce passions of her fiery youth, has sobbed herself to sleep once more, and this new world of man is made.
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Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words and more, he asks of thee works first and words after.
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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?
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Nothing is so infectious as example.
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O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!
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Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.
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Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.
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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.
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Study nature as the countenance of God.
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The loveliest fairy in the world and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.
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For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.
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Men must work, and women must weep.
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I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.
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Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?
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We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook — an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they were being overloaded — a mere book to keep the poor in order.
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