William Mountford Short Quotes

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

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

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

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And so among the ruins of our pride, we grow to be loving children of the Most High.

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

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

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

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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.

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God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.

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This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.

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

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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.

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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.

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To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.

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Not every hour, nor every day, perhaps, can generous wishes ripen into kind actions; but there is not a moment that cannot be freighted with prayer.

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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?"

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Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.

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Eternity is the divine treasure-house, and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which God is preparing.

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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.

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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.

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I do not say the mind gets informed by action, — bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties.

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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.

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