Quotes of James Montgomery - somelinesforyou

“ Being wholly given over to God now is the essential and best possible preparation for future service. ”

- James Montgomery Boice

“ To know God as he is, is to love him as he is and to want to be like him. ”

- James Montgomery Boice

“ Golden Bill! Golden Bill! Lo, the peep of day; All the air is cool and still, From the elm-tree on the hill, Chant away:.... Let thy loud and welcome lay Pour alway Few notes but strong. ”

- James Montgomery

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

- James Montgomery

“ 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. ”

- James Montgomery

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

- James Montgomery

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

- James Montgomery

“ Friend after friend departs; who hath not lost a friend? There is no union here of hearts that hath not here its end. ”

- James Montgomery

“ The nursery of brooding Pelicans, The dormitory of their dead, had vanish'd, And all the minor spots of rock and verdue, The abodes of happy millions, were no more. ”

- James Montgomery

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

- James Montgomery

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

- James Montgomery

“ Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility. ”

- James Montgomery

“ The bird that soars on highest wing, Builds on the ground her lowly nest; And she that doth most sweetly sing, Sings in the shade when all things rest: In lark and nightingale we see What honor hath humility. ”

- James Montgomery

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

- James Montgomery

“ Nearest the throne itself must be The footstool of humility. ”

- James Montgomery

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

- James Montgomery

“ Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility. ”

- James Montgomery

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

- James Montgomery

“ Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility. ”

- James Montgomery

“ The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath Was sweeter, in the blast of death, Than all the lavish fragrance of the time. ”

- James Montgomery

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

- James Montgomery

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

- James Montgomery

“ The Rose has but a Summer reign, The daisy never dies. ”

- James Montgomery

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

- James Montgomery

“ Eternity: a moment standing still for ever. ”

- James Montgomery

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

- James Montgomery

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

- James Montgomery

“ Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey, Alive and wriggling in the elastic net, Which Nature hung beneath their grasping beaks; Till, swoln, with captures, the unwieldy burden Clogg'd their slow flight, as heavily to land, These mighty hunters of the deep return'd… ”

- James Montgomery

“ Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey, Alive and wriggling in the elastic net, Which Nature hung beneath their grasping beaks; Till, swoln, with captures, the unwieldy burden Clogg'd their slow flight, as heavily to land, These mighty hunters of the deep return'd… ”

- James Montgomery

“ A work of skill, surpassing sense, A labor of Omnipotence; Though frail as dust it meet thine eye, He form'd this gnat who built the sky. ”

- James Montgomery
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