"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
Topic(s):
Age
More From Matthew Simpson
- "We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others."
- "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."
- "If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man."
More In Age
- "Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."― George Orwell
- "You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned."― Judith Viorst
- "The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all."― Charles Hodge