James Montgomery quotes

Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past. (James Montgomery)
Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive. View quote
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Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility. View quote
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Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? View quote
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Night is the time to weep,To wet with unseen tearsThose graves of memory where sleepThe joys of other years. View quote
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Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above. unmeasured by the flight of years; and all that life is love. View quote
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Eternity: a moment standing still for ever. View quote
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The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way. View quote
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Gashed with honourable scars, Low in Glory's lap they lie; Though they fell, they fell like stars, Streaming splendour through the sky. View quote
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Baptize the nations! far and nigh, The triumphs of the cross record The name of Jesus glorify, Till every people call Him Lord. View quote
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When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies). (James Montgomery)
If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found! View quote
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When to the cross I turn my eyes, And rest on Calvary, O Lamb of God, my sacrifice, I must remember Thee. View quote
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Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free. View quote
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Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before? View quote
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Hymns should have unity, graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts, a conscious progress, a sense of completeness and be easily understood. View quote
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Once, in the flight of ages past, There lived a man. View quote
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Return unto thy rest, my soul, From all the wanderings of thy thought, From sickness unto death made whole, Safe through a thousand perils brought. View quote
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The nursery of brooding Pelicans, The dormitory of their dead, had vanish'd, And all the minor spots of rock and verdure, The abodes of happy millions, were no more. View quote
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Distinct as the billows, yet one as the sea. View quote
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Counts his sure gains, and hurries back for more. (James Montgomery)
Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home. View quote
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Friend after friend departs; Who hath not lost a friend? There is no union here of hearts That finds not here an end. View quote
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Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye When none but God is near. View quote
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Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past; At once the fountain, stream, and sea, They were, they are, they yet shall be. View quote
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