Matthew Simpson Quotes

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• Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all…
• 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…
• 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…
• Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.
• 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…
• I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.
• If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.
• 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…
• If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!
• If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.
• 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…
• If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.
• 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…
• There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict…
• Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.
• We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit,…

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