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Quotes by Wm. Mountford
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.— filed under Action
Yes, death, the hourly possibility of it, death is the sublimity of life.— filed under Death
Duty reaches down the ages in its effects, and into eternity; and when the man goes about it resolutely, it seems to me now as though his footsteps were echoing beyond the stars, though only heard faintly in the atmosphere of this world.— filed under Duty
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.— filed under Eternal Life
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.— filed under Eternal Life
Faith is the inspiration of nobleness, it is the strength of integrity; it is the life of love, and is everlasting growth for it; it is courage of soul, and bridges over for our crossing the gulf between worldliness and heavenly-mindedness; and it is the sense of the unseen, without which we could not feel God nor hope for heaven.— filed under Faith
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.— filed under Faith
Day and night, and every moment, there are voices about us. All the hours speak as they pass; and in every event there is a message to us; and all our circumstances talk with us; but it is in Divine language, that worldliness misunderstands, that selfishness is frightened at, and that only the children of God hear rightly and happily.— filed under God's Guidance
There fragrant flowers immortal bloom, And joys supreme are given ; There rays Divine disperse the gloom; Beyond the confines of the tomb Appears the dawn of heaven. 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. The redeemed shall walk there.— filed under Heaven
God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.— filed under Heaven
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.— filed under Hope
And so among the ruins of our pride, we grow to be loving children of the Most High.— filed under Humility
O it is a happy thing to feel ourselves helpless and naught, for then the presence of God is felt to wrap us about so lovingly ! Everlasting, infinite, almighty, - these are the words that strengthen us with speaking them.— filed under Humility
God does nothing in vain. When He gives a power, it is for a purpose, it is that it may reach an end. Now what I argue is this: Since He has put in my soul a germ that can grow to eternity, He means that it shall grow to eternity. It is our souls which are the everlastingness of God's purpose in this earth. -— filed under Immortality
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.— filed under Immortality
Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does.— filed under Immortality
At ease in a world in which my Lord was such a sufferer!— filed under Indolence
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.— filed under Knowledge
This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.— filed under Life
4 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. a— filed under Meditation
What thousands and millions of recollections there must be in us! And every now and then one of them becomes known tous; and it shows us what spiritual depths are growing in us, what mines of memory. The pure memories given— filed under Memory
Where is the subject that does not branch out into infinity? For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in summer, and so is every snow-flake in winter. Both upwards and downwards, and all around us, science and speculation pass into mystery at last.— filed under Mystery
Only let us love God, and then nature will compass us about like a cloud of Divine witnesses; and all influences from the earth, and things on the earth, will be ministers of God to do us good. Only let there be God within us, and then every thing outside us will become a godlike help.— filed under Nature
- The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.— filed under Old Age
Nobler than a ship safely ending a long voyage, and sublimer than the setting sun, is the old age of a just and kind and useful life. The years of old age are stalls in the cathedral of life in which for aged men to sit and listen and meditate and be patient till the service is over, and in which they may get themselves ready to say "Amen" at the last, with all their hearts and souls and strength.— filed under Old Age
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!"— filed under Prayer
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.— filed under Prayer
All noblest things are religious, - not temples and martyrdoms only, but the best books, pictures, poetry, statues, and music.— filed under Religion
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths. -— filed under Sorrow
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.— filed under Sorrow
For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit.— filed under Wisdom
And what is this world in the immensity that teems with them? And what are they who occupy it? The universe at large would suffer as little in its splendor and variety by the destruction of our planet as the verdure and sublime magnitude of a forest would suffer by the fall of a single leaf. Ownership in the world I have none, but I have an infinite interest in it; for if not my own it is my God's; and so it is mine in a higher than a legal sense. Yes, this is the beauty, this is the whole sublimity, this is the tender delight of life that it is of God's governing.— filed under World