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 MountfordTo 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 MountfordWith 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 MountfordThis earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.
William MountfordIt is not in the bright, happy day, but only in the solemn night, that other worlds are to be seen shining in their long, long distances. And it is in sorrow - the night of the soul - that we see farthest, and know ourselves natives of infinity, and sons and daughters of the Most High.
William Mountford