William Mountford: Quotes about feelings

William Mountford was English Unitarian preacher and author. Explore interesting quotes on feeling.
William Mountford: 66 quotes1 like

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 466.

“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.”

William Mountford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 332.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 220.