William Mountford: Quotes about God

William Mountford was English Unitarian preacher and author. Explore interesting quotes on god.
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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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 616.

Wisdom , God , Soul , Knowledge

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 620.

Life , God , World , Beauty

“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.

God , Feeling , Cry , Sincerity

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 306.

Love , God , Strong , Waiting

“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.

God , Feeling , Happiness

“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.”

William Mountford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 430.

Love , God , Nature , Help

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 266.

God , Children , Selfishness , Night

“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

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 406.

God , Lie , Sleep , Time

“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

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

William Mountford

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

God , Soul

“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.

Love , Life , God , Faith