The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe. — William Mountford Age Copy Share Image
It is our souls which are the everlastingness of God's purpose in this earth. — William Mountford Earth Copy Share Image
Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does. — William Mountford Believe Copy Share Image
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths. — William Mountford Death Copy Share Image
Yes, death, the hourly possibility of it, death is the sublimity of life. — William Mountford Death Copy Share Image
To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates… — William Mountford Communicate Copy Share Image
Night by night I will lie down and sleep in the thought of God, and in the thought, too, that my waking… — William Mountford Bosoms Copy Share Image
God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting… — William Mountford Holy Copy Share Image
Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it be, it will be either heaven itself, or… — William Mountford Beginning Copy Share Image
Yes, I live in God, and shall eternally. It is His hand upholds me now; and death will be but an uplifting… — William Mountford Bosoms Copy Share Image
Not every hour, nor every day, perhaps, can generous wishes ripen into kind actions; but there is not a moment that cannot… — William Mountford Action Copy Share Image
This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship… — William Mountford Apprenticeship Copy Share Image
I do not say the mind gets informed by action, — bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it,… — William Mountford Action Copy Share Image
It is from out of the depths of our humility that the height of our destiny looks grandest. Let me truly feel… — William Mountford Depth Copy Share Image
Duty reaches down the ages in its effects, and into eternity; and when the man goes about it resolutely, it seems to… — William Mountford Age Copy Share Image
The years of old age are stalls in the cathedral of life in which for aged men to sit and listen and… — William Mountford Age Copy Share Image
O it is a happy thing to feel ourselves helpless and naught, for then the presence of God is felt to wrap… — William Mountford Almighty Copy Share Image
No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest… — William Mountford Calvary Copy Share Image
There is no burden of the spirit but is lightened by kneeling under it. Little by little, the bitterest feelings are sweetened… — William Mountford Agony Copy Share Image
The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life, amid glory and acclamation; but it… — William Mountford Death Copy Share Image
It is not in the bright, happy day, but only in the solemn night, that other worlds are to be seen shining… — William Mountford Daughter Copy Share Image
Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning… — William Mountford Different Copy Share Image
To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a… — William Mountford Belief Copy Share Image
Do we not hear voices, gentle and great, and some of them like the voices of departed friends,— do we not hear… — William Mountford Come up Copy Share Image
Ownership in the world I have none, but I have an infinite interest in it; for if not my own it is… — William Mountford Delight Copy Share Image
Where is the subject that does not branch out into infinity? For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every… — William Mountford Branches Copy Share Image
It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for… — William Mountford Attention Copy Share Image
Only let us love God, and then nature will compass us about like a cloud of Divine witnesses; and all influences from… — William Mountford Clouds Copy Share Image
The day of our decease will be that of our coming of age; and with our last breath we shall become free… — William Mountford Age Copy Share Image
What thousands and millions of recollections there must be in us! And every now and then one of them becomes known to… — William Mountford Depth Copy Share Image
Eternity is the divine treasure-house, and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a… — William Mountford Death Copy Share Image
With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope, and at the end of it, death is a… — William Mountford Death Copy Share Image
Day and night, and every moment, there are voices about us. All the hours speak as they pass; and in every event… — William Mountford Child of god Copy Share Image
Men would not be so hasty to abandon the world either as monks or as suicides, did they but see the jewels… — William Mountford Abandon Copy Share Image
For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through… — William Mountford Grows Copy Share Image
Faith is the inspiration of nobleness, it is the strength of integrity; it is the life of love, and is everlasting growth… — William Mountford Bridges Copy Share Image
