William Mountford Quotes

What thousands and millions of recollections there must be in us! And every now and then one of them becomes known to us; and it shows us what spiritual depths are growing in us, what mines of memory.

When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.

It is not in the bright, happy day, but only in the solemn night, that other worlds are to be seen shining in their long, long distances. And it is in sorrow — the night of the soul — that we see farthest, and know ourselves natives of infinity, and sons and daughters of the Most High.

It is our souls which are the everlastingness of God's purpose in this earth.

Yes, death, — the hourly possibility of it, — death is the sublimity of life.

Night by night I will lie down and sleep in the thought of God, and in the thought, too, that my waking may be in the bosom of the Father; and some time it will be, so I trust.

Yes, what I am to be everlastingly, I am growing to be now — now in this present time so little thought of, this time which the sun rises and sets in, and the clock strikes in, and I wake and sleep in.

There is no burden of the spirit but is lightened by kneeling under it. Little by little, the bitterest feelings are sweetened by the mention of them in prayer. And agony itself stops swelling, if we can only cry sincerely, " My God, my God!"

At ease in a world in which my Lord was such a sufferer!

Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does.

Do we not hear voices, gentle and great, and some of them like the voices of departed friends,— do we not hear them saying to us, "Come up hither?"

All noblest things are religious,— not temples and martyrdoms only, but the best books, pictures, poetry, statues, and music.

The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.

With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope; and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope.

To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.