Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.
From 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.
If you live for fame, men may turn against you.
If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.
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.
If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!
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.
The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.
I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.
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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