Quotes by Matthew Simpson

About Matthew Simpson:

Matthew Simpson was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1852 and based mostly in Chicago. During the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War, most evangelical denominations in the North, especially the Methodists, were strong supporters of radical policies that favored the Freedmen (former slaves) and distrusted the Southern whites. Bishop Simpson played a leading role in mobilizing the Northern Methodists for the cause. His biographer calls him the "High Priest of the Radical Republicans."
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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

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

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 any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

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

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

Matthew Simpson

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

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

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

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

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

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameMatthew Simpson
  • DescriptionAmerican academic
  • BornJune 21, 1811
  • DiedJune 18, 1884
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionTheologian; Teacher