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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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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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It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.
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Because I believe in a God of absolute and unbounded love, therefore I believe in a loving anger of His which will and must devour and destroy all which is decayed, monstrous, abortive in His universe till all enemies shall be put under His feet, and God shall be all in all.
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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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If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.
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So fleet the works of men, back to their earth againAncient and holy things fade like a dream.
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Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.
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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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Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
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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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Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.
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[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm.
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All but God is changing day by day.
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If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world would understand, though they might not appreciate. The perfectly popular style is the perfectly scientific one. To me an obscurity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.
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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.
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Life is too short for mean anxieties.
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Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
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A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.
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Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
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Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.
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