William Mountford: Quotes about death

William Mountford was English Unitarian preacher and author. Explore interesting quotes on death.
William Mountford: 66   quotes 1   like

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

William Mountford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 177.

Life , Death

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 339.

Death , Men , Truth , Way

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

William Mountford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 556.

Death , God , Feeling

“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.”

William Mountford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 221.

Life , Death , Faith , Feeling

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 328.

Life , Death , Disease , Hope

“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.”

William Mountford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 210.

Death , God