William Mountford Quotes

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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.

William Mountford

Daughter, Distance, Son

William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.379

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

William Mountford

Believe, Childhood, Age

William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.2

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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.

William Mountford

Sympathy, Communication, Men

William Mountford, Frederic Dan Huntington (1850). “Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth”, p.213

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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.

William Mountford

Wisdom, Prayer, Soul

William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.34

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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!"

William Mountford

Prayer, Agony, Feelings

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 466), 1895.

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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.

William Mountford

Faith, Integrity, Inspiration

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 220), 1895.

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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.

William Mountford

Stars, Men, Atmosphere

William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.174

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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.

William Mountford

Mean, Glasses, House

William Mountford, Frederic Dan Huntington (1850). “Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth”, p.208

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It is from out of the depths of our humility that the height of our destiny looks grandest. Let me truly feel that in myself I am nothing, and at once, through every inlet of my soul. God comes in, and is everyone in me.

William Mountford

Humility, Destiny, Soul

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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.

William Mountford

Life, Home, Earth

William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.76

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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.

William Mountford

Strong, Long, Waiting

William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.507

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The day of our decease will be that of our coming of age; and with our last breath we shall become free of the universe. And in some region of infinity, and from among its splendors, this earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.

William Mountford

Death, Home, Age

William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.76

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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

Faith, Stars, Night

William Mountford, Frederic Dan Huntington (1850). “Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth”, p.137

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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

Men, Shadow Of Death, Valleys

William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.471

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

William Mountford

Believe, Doe, Christ

William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.394

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

William Mountford

Soul, Purpose, Earth

William Mountford (1874). “Euthanasy: Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.331

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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.

William Mountford

Prayer, Wish, Action

William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.146

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Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it.

William Mountford

Letting Go, Heaven, Resignation

William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.368

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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.

William Mountford

Sorrow, Feels

William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.24

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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.

William Mountford

Delight, World, Infinite

William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.282

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It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for a person to let money-getting harden his heart into contempt, or into impatience, of the little attentions, the merriments and the caresses of domestic life.

William Mountford

Flower, Heart, Dust

William Mountford, Frederic Dan Huntington (1850). “Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth”, p.251

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Men would not be so hasty to abandon the world either as monks or as suicides, did they but see the jewels of wisdom and faith which are scattered so plentifully along its paths; and lacking which no soul can come again from beyond the grave to gather.

William Mountford

Suicide, Men, Jewels

William Mountford, Frederic Dan Huntington (1850). “Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth”, p.136

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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.

William Mountford

God, Children, Night

William Mountford (1874). “Euthanasy: Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.503

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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.

William Mountford

Heart, Men, Years

William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.140

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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.

William Mountford

Christian, Knowledge, Mean

William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.222

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William Mountford

Born: May 31, 1816
Died: April 20, 1885
Occupation: Author
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