Yes, what I am to be everlastingly, I am growing to be now … - William Mountford

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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.

William Mountford

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William Mountford (31 May 1816 – 20 April 1885) was an English Unitarian preacher and author.

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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.

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.

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… - William Mountford

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