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Quotes from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers — William Mountford

d. 1885 England

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Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Yes, death, — the hourly possibility of it, — death is the sublimity of life.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

It is our souls which are the everlastingness of God's purpose in this earth.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

All noblest things are religious,— not temples and martyrdoms only, but the best books, pictures, poetry, statues, and music.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

And so among the ruins of our pride, we grow to be loving children of the Most High.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

At ease in a world in which my Lord was such a sufferer!

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Yes, I live in God, and shall eternally. It is His hand upholds me now; and death will be but an uplifting of me into His bosom.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Do we not hear voices, gentle and great, and some of them like the voices of departed friends,— do we not hear them saying to us, "Come up hither?"

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Night by night I will lie down and sleep in the thought of God, and in the thought, too, that my waking may be in the bosom of the Father; and some time it will be, so I trust.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

A man who is not poor nor ill, nor about to be stoned to death, must not distress himself if he does not feel all through his life what faith Stephen had only in his last moments.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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