Charles Kingsley Quotes

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

Evil is not interesting. What is it, chopping off someone's head? We used to do that as kids, you know, you tear up paper dolls and stuff. I know everyone's done it in the history of the world, but maybe everybody was dumb and they were just looking for something interesting to do. What's really interesting and hard is being good.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.

The Way to Heaven has no favorites. It is always with the good man.

Real faith invariably produces holiness of heart and righteousness of life.

The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity.

No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.