American - Clergyman | June 21, 1811 - June 18, 1884
If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.
Matthew Simpson
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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.
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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.
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Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.
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Sanctification is not regeneration.
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If you live for fame, men may turn against you.
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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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The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.
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I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.
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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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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.
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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.
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