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From Quotes by 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now a temple to…
- 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…
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