James Montgomery Quotes

Bliss in possession will not last;
Remembered joys are never past;
At once the fountain, stream, and sea,
They were, they are, they yet shall be.

Friend after friend departs; Who hath not lost a friend?
There is no union here of hearts
That finds not here an end.

If God hath made this world so fair,
Where sin and death abound,
How beautiful beyond compare
Will paradise be found!

Nor sink those stars in empty night:
They hide themselves in heaven's own light.

Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.

Hymns should have unity,graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts,a conscious progress,a sense of completeness..and be easily understood.

Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey,
Alive and wriggling in the elastic net,
Which Nature hung beneath their grasping beaks;
Till, swoln with captures, the unwieldy burden
Clogg'd their slow flight, as heavily to land,
These mighty hunters of the deep return'd.
There on the cragged cliffs they perch'd at ease,
Gorging their hapless victims one by one;
Then full and weary, side by side, they slept,
Till evening roused them to the chase again.

Who that hath ever been
Could bear to be no more?
Yet who would tread again the scene
He trod through life before?

Baptize the nations! far and nigh,
The triumphs of the cross record
The name of Jesus glorify,
Till every people call Him Lord.

When the good man yields his breath
(For the good man never dies).

Return unto thy rest, my soul,
From all the wanderings of thy thought,
From sickness unto death made whole,
Safe through a thousand perils brought.

Beyond this vale of tears
There is a life above,
Unmeasured by the flight of years;
And all that life is love.

The nursery of brooding Pelicans,
The dormitory of their dead, had vanish'd,
And all the minor spots of rock and verdure,
The abodes of happy millions, were no more.

Joys too exquisite to last,
And yet more exquisite when past.

Distinct as the billows, yet one as the sea.