Matthew Simpson Quotes - Page 2

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• If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

  Matthew Simpson

  Men, May, Fame

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• Sanctification is not regeneration.

  Matthew Simpson

  Regeneration, Sanctification

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• 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

  Illustration, Unseen, Facts

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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

  Matthew Simpson

  Faith, Purpose, Today

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most ooundless conceptions, we are left at the same time ready, though our hearts be thrilled, to have our hands filled for deeds of benevolence and love. The happiest moments may be the busiest moments.

  Matthew Simpson

  Heart, Hands, Soul

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

  Matthew Simpson

  Men, Titles, Honest

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

  Matthew Simpson

  Faith, Past, Events

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• 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.

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  Feelings, Mind, Principles

  Matthew Simpson (1865). “Funeral Address Delivered at the Burial of President Lincoln: At Springfield, Illinois, May 4, 1865”, p.6

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• 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

  Speech, Slave, Bondage

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• 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

  Opportunity, America, May

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