Matthew Simpson Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of…
• Sanctification is not regeneration.
• If you live for fame, men may turn against you.
• Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.
• The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.
• The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.
• We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.
• 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…
• Wherever God's word is circulated, it stirs the hearts of the people, it prepares for public morals. Circulate that word, and you find the tone…
• 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…
• I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most ooundless…
• 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…
• Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but…
• If this is to be a Happy New Year, a year of usefulness, a year in which we shall live to make this earth better,…

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