James Montgomery Quotes

We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

The doctrines of grace stand or fall together, and together they point to one central truth: salvation is all of grace because it is all of God; and because it is all of God, it is all for His glory.

No one ever truly comes to know, honor, or worship God without being changed in the process

A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.

Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view that human beings are basically good, that no one is really lost, that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation.

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

Here hyacinths of heavenly blue, shook their rich tresses to the morn.

There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky.

The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.

Baptize the nations! far and nigh,The triumphs of the cross recordThe name of Jesus glorify,Till every people call Him Lord.

If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!

When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce them engaged.

Dark-green and gemm'd with flowers of snow, With close uncrowded branches spread Not proudly high, nor meanly low, A graceful myrtle rear'd its head.

The tulip's petals shine in dew, All beautiful, but none alike.

When to the cross I turn my eyes,And rest on Calvary,O Lamb of God, my sacrifice,I must remember Thee.

Time is eternity begun.

Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.

Gashed with honourable scars,Low in Glory's lap they lie;Though they fell, they fell like stars,Streaming splendour through the sky.

Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above. unmeasured by the flight of years; and all that life is love.

Songs of praise the angels sang, Heav'n with alleluias rang, when creation was begun, when God spoke and it was done.

When evening closes Nature's eye, The glow-worm lights her little spark To captivate her favorite fly And tempt the rover through the dark.

Hymns should have unity, graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts, a conscious progress, a sense of completeness and be easily understood.

A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.

The world is full of corruption, and deceit, and deviltry — chock full of it.

Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?

The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky.

When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies).

While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn.

Two roses on one slender spray In sweet communion grew, Together hailed the morning ray And drank the evening dew.

There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A whole eternity of love, Form'd for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here Translated to that happier sphere.

There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found, They softly lie and sweetly sleep Low in the ground.

Prayer moves the arm Which moves the world, And brings salvation down.

Tis human actions paint the chart of time.

Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years.

Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past.

Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire.

O thou by whom we come to God The Life the Truth the Way The path of prayer Thyself hast trod- Lord teach us how to pray.