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