"For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit."
William Mountford was an English Unitarian preacher and author.
"Only let us love God, and then nature will compass us about like a cloud of Divine witnesses; and all influences from the earth, and things on the earth, will be ministers of God to do us good. Only let there be God within us, and then every thing outside us will become a godlike help."
"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."
"God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us."
"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."
"This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty."
"The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe."