Charles Kingsley Quotes

We shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand – the habit of mind which theologians call, and rightly, faith in God. Charles Kingsley

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 are being overloaded. Charles Kingsley

The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth, or a man or woman left to say, I will redress that wrong, or spend my life in the attempt. Charles Kingsley

Oh England is a pleasant place for them that’s rich and high,
But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I
Charles Kingsley

To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ of the first upgrowth of all virtue. Charles Kingsley