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If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.
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We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!
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Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.
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