Matthew Simpson quotes

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections. (Matthew Simpson)
We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine. View quote
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Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended. View quote
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We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. View quote
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The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable. View quote
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Wherever public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now a temple to a heathen god where the word of God is read. View quote
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I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most boundless conceptions, we are left at the same time ready, though our hearts be thrilled, to have our hands filled for deeds of benevolence and love. The happiest moments may be the busiest moments. View quote
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Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven. View quote
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Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others. View quote
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Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause. View quote
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If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim. (Matthew Simpson)
We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God. View quote
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If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character. View quote
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Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state. View quote
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If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay. View quote
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It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind. View quote
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Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age. View quote
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If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world. View quote
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If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you! View quote
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There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part. View quote
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I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today. (Matthew Simpson)
If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources. View quote
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The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity. View quote
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If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man. View quote
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Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed. View quote
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