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

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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

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 407.

Memory

“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

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 421.

Science , Winter , Summer

“Do we not hear voices, gentle and great, and some of them like the voices of departed friends,— do we not hear them saying to us, "Come up hither?"”

William Mountford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 310.