Matthew Simpson Quotes

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.
Matthew Simpson

Age, Human, Thoughts

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

Work, God, Honest

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.
Matthew Simpson

Free, Whole, Nation

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.
Matthew Simpson

Sacrifice, Through, Made

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 things around us.
Matthew Simpson

Life, Around, Fact

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

Fire, Angels, Higher

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.
Matthew Simpson

Nature, God, Human

I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.
Matthew Simpson

Faith, Today, Sense

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.
Matthew Simpson

God, Fear, Made

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.
Matthew Simpson

Knowledge, Through, Small

If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!
Matthew Simpson

Live, May, Jesus

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.
Matthew Simpson

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

Live, May, Enjoy

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.
Matthew Simpson

Live, Children, May

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.
Matthew Simpson

Faith, Elevates, Widens

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.
Matthew Simpson

Faith, Power, Knowledge

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.
Matthew Simpson

Nature, Time, Mind

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

God, Past, Wants

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, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.
Matthew Simpson

Life, May, America

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.
Matthew Simpson

Education, Successful, Both

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 what are these in the whole sum of the world's past.
Matthew Simpson

Men, History, Past

Sanctification is not regeneration.
Matthew Simpson

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.
Matthew Simpson

Change, Faith, Knowledge

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.
Matthew Simpson

Name, Abraham, Lincoln

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.
Matthew Simpson

Faith, Knowledge, Through

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: June 21, 1811

Died: June 18, 1884

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