William Mountford Quotes

• 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.

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  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!"

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  Prayer, Agony, Feelings

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

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• No es en el día luminoso y feliz, sino sólo en la noche solemne, cuando se ven brillar otros mundos en sus largas, largas distancias. Y es en el dolor -la noche del alma- cuando vemos más lejos, y nos conocemos nativos del infinito, e hijos e hijas del Altísimo.

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  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.

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  Believe, Childhood, Age

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

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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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  Uplifting, Hands, Eternity

  William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.474

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• 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.

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  Nature, Clouds, Earth

  William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.155

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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.

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  Stars, Men, Atmosphere

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

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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.

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  Faith, Integrity, Inspiration

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

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• La eternidad es el tesoro divino, y la esperanza es la ventana, por medio de la cual se permite a los mortales ver, como a través de un cristal oscuro, las cosas que Dios está preparando.

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  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.

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  Humility, Destiny, Soul

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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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  Strong, Long, Waiting

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

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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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  Life, Home, Earth

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

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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.

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  Death, Home, Age

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

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• La luz del genio es a veces tan resplandeciente que hace caminar a un hombre por la vida, entre gloria y aclamación; pero arde muy tenue y baja cuando es llevado al "valle de sombra de muerte." Pero la fe es como la estrella vespertina, que brilla en nuestras almas tanto más cuanto más profunda es la noche de muerte en que se hunden.

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  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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• 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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  Lying, Father, Sleep

  William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.27

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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.

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  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.

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  Believe, Doe, Christ

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

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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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  Hope, Mind, Life Is

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 328), 1895.

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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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  Spiritual, Memories, Depth

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.460

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

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  Soul, Purpose, Earth

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

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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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  Heaven, Soul, Together

  William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.52

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• ... la ciencia y la especulación pasan por fin al misterio.

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  Lasts, Mysterious, Mystery

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.20

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

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  Death, Possibility, Life Death

  William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.228

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• 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.

  William Mountford

  Summer, Winter, Branches

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 421), 1895.

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