Matthew Simpson Quotes

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• Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth. Martin Luther If this is to be a Happy New Year, a year of usefulness, a year in which we shall live to make this earth better, it is because God will direct our pathway. How important then, to feel our dependence upon Him!

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  New Year, Angel, Son

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

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  Jesus, Joy, Earth

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• His throne is the pulpit. He stands in Christ's stead. His message is the Word of God. Around him are immortal souls. The Savior, unseen, is beside him. The Holy Spirit broods over the congregation. Angels gaze upon the scene, and heaven and hell await the issue. What associations and what vast responsibility!

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  Responsibility, Angel, Issues

  Matthew Simpson (1879). “Lectures on Preaching: Delivered to the Students of Yale College in 1879”

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• If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

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  Faith, Men, Connections

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• 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.

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  Perception, Looks, Gains

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• 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.

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  Sacrifice, Men, Heaven

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• 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.

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  Faith, Character, Agency

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• Wherever God's word is circulated, it stirs the hearts of the people, it prepares for public morals. Circulate that word, and you find the tone of morals immediately changed. It is God peaking to man.

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  Heart, Men, People

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• 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.

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  Consciousness, Human Nature, Adam

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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

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  Passing Away, May, Pleasure

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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

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  Angel, Men, Fire

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• 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.

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  Errors, Eden, Goes On

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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

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  Country, Men, Bravery

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• 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.

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  Children, Desert, World

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• 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.

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  Heart, Ideas, Age

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

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• 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.

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  Joy, Shining, Comfort

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

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  Safe, Graves, Friends Again

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• 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.

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  Fear, Angel, Son

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• Wherever public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now a temple to a heathen god where the word of God is read.

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  Earth, Faces, Temples

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 34, 1895.

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

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  Education, Successful, States

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• 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.

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  Faith, Phrases, Gains

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

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Faith, Past, Events

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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