31 Quotes by William Mountford

It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for a person to let money-getting harden his heart into contempt, or into impatience, of the little attentions, the merriments and the caresses of domestic life.

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.

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.

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

God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.

Not every hour, nor every day, perhaps, can generous wishes ripen into kind actions; but there is not a moment that cannot be freighted with prayer.

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.

The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.

I do not say the mind gets informed by action, – bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties.