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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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
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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We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
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
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.
Matthew Simpson
It is my title to a place in heaven and there, when earth shall have passed and its events shall have closed, I shall have a home forever.
Matthew Simpson
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