Matthew Simpson Quotes

• 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

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

  Matthew Simpson

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

  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

• 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

• 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

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

  Matthew Simpson

• If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

  Matthew Simpson

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Matthew Simpson

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Birth:	20th June, 1811
Death:	18th June, 1884
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Clergyman

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