William Mountford - Death Quotes

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No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest in the valley, which men walk in easily, and is never felt at all on a steep place, like Calvary. Truth is everlasting, and so is every lover of it; and so he feels himself almost always.

William Mountford
A man who is not poor nor ill, nor about to be stoned to death, must not distress himself if he does not feel all through his life what faith Stephen had only in his last moments.

William Mountford
Yes, I live in God, and shall eternally. It is His hand upholds me now; and death will be but an uplifting of me into His bosom.

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

William Mountford
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.

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

William Mountford
The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life, amid glory and acclamation; but it burns very dimly and low when carried into "the valley of the shadow of death." But faith is like the evening star, shining into our souls the more brightly, the deeper is the night of death in which they sink.

William Mountford