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.
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 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 MountfordMen would not be so hasty to abandon the world either as monks or as suicides, did they but see the jewels of wisdom and faith which are scattered so plentifully along its paths; and lacking which no soul can come again from beyond the grave to gather.
William MountfordDuty reaches down the ages in its effects, and into eternity; and when the man goes about it resolutely, it seems to me now as though his footsteps were echoing beyond the stars, though only heard faintly in the atmosphere of this world.
William MountfordDay 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