Matthew Simpson Quotes & Sayings

“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 from all material chains, shall rise and shine.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Sanctification is not regeneration.”

“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.”

“I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.”