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I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most ooundless conceptions, we are left at the same time ready, though our hearts be

I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most ooundless conceptions, we are left at the same time ready, though our hearts be thrilled, to have our hands filled for deeds of benevolence and love. The happiest moments may be the busiest moments.

Matthew Simpson
Heart, Hands, Soul

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

Matthew Simpson
Men, Titles, Honest

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

Matthew Simpson
Faith, Past, Events
Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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
Feelings, Mind, Principles
Matthew Simpson (1865). “Funeral Address Delivered at the Burial of President Lincoln: At Springfield, Illinois, May 4, 1865”, p.6

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.

Matthew Simpson
Faith, Moving, Personal Knowledge
Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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

Matthew Simpson
Spring, Temptation
Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

Matthew Simpson
Names, Abraham

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

Matthew Simpson
Past, Men, Want
Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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

Matthew Simpson
Men, May, Fame
Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.

Matthew Simpson
Opportunity, America, May

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