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Let God do with me what He will, anything He will and, whatever it be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it.

William Mountford

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William Mountford
Age: 68 †
Born: 1816
Born: May 31
Died: 1885
Died: April 20
Whatever
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Resignation
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Yes, death, the hourly possibility of it, death is the sublimity of life.
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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!
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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.
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The day of our decease will be that of our coming of age and with our last breath we shall become free of the universe. And in some region of infinity, and from among its splendors, this earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.
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Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.
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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.
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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.
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This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.
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When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
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... science and speculation pass into mystery at last.
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God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.
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No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest in the valley, which men walk in easily, and is never felt at all on a steep place, like Calvary. Truth is everlasting, and so is every lover of it and so he feels himself almost always.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life, amid glory and acclamation but it burns very dimly and low when carried into the valley of the shadow of death. But faith is like the evening star, shining into our souls the more brightly, the deeper is the night of death in which they sink.
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Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does.
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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.
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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.
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