Friends again Quote by Matthew Simpson

I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most…

— Matthew Simpson

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

— Matthew Simpson

Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for…

— Matthew Simpson

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

— Matthew Simpson

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

— Matthew Simpson

Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl…

— Matthew Simpson

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of…

— Matthew Simpson

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

— Matthew Simpson

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

— Matthew Simpson

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this…

— Matthew Simpson

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…

— Matthew Simpson

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

— Matthew Simpson