William Mountford: Quotes about life

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

“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.

“This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.”

William Mountford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 385.

“To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.”

William Mountford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 364.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“The years of old age are stalls in the cathedral of life in which for aged men to sit and listen and meditate and be patient till the service is over, and in which they may get themselves ready to say "Amen" at the last, with all their hearts and souls and strength.”

William Mountford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 439.

“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.