Matthew Simpson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Matthew Simpson quotes and sayings page 2 (clergyman). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 31 we have.
“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.”
“There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.”
“We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.”
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