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
If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim. – Matthew Simpson
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. – Matthew Simpson
Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state. – Matthew Simpson
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. – Matthew Simpson
Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world’s past. – Matthew Simpson
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. – Matthew Simpson
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. – Matthew Simpson
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
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. – Matthew Simpson
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. – Matthew Simpson
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
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
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. – Matthew Simpson
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. – Matthew Simpson
If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you! – Matthew Simpson
Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections. – Matthew Simpson
If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln’s title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned. – Matthew Simpson
We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God. – Matthew Simpson
