Author: Matthew Simpson

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

- Matthew Simpson

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.

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.

- Matthew Simpson

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

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

- Matthew Simpson

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

- Matthew Simpson

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

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

- Matthew Simpson

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.

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

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

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

- Matthew Simpson

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

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

- Matthew Simpson

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