Top 25 Quotes by William Mountford of 37 - Page 2

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

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

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

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

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.

William Mountford

Lying, Father, Sleep

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

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.

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

William Mountford

Death, Possibility, Life Death

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

... science and speculation pass into mystery at last.

William Mountford

Lasts, Mysterious, Mystery

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

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.

William Mountford

Heaven, Soul, Together

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

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.

William Mountford

Spiritual, Memories, Depth

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

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

Hope, Mind, Life Is

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

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