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Matthew Simpson
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"If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man."
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Matthew Simpson
Topic(s):
Faith
"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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Matthew Simpson
Topic(s):
Faith
"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."
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Matthew Simpson
Topic(s):
Faith
"We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others."
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Matthew Simpson
Topic(s):
Faith
"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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Matthew Simpson
Topic(s):
Faith
"I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today."
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Matthew Simpson
Topic(s):
Faith
"Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state."
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Matthew Simpson
Topic(s):
Education
"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."
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Matthew Simpson
Topic(s):
Age
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