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But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Upon proclaiming a National Fast Day (30 March 1863)
- Pride
I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lords side.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Reported in Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1867), p. 282
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Upon proclaiming a National Fast Day (30 March 1863)
- Prayer
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865
- Prayer
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Letter to Thurlow Weed (15 March 1865), reproduced in Lord Charnwood (1916), Abraham Lincoln: A Biography
The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Letter to Eliza Gurney (4 September 1864); quoted in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 7 (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953), p. 535
- Faith
Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (1865)
And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)In context
- Justice
- Slavery
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Retribution, from Friedrich von Logau, Sinngedichte, III, 2, 24
- Justice
God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858), Part IV, John Alden.
- America
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
“God is not dead; nor doth he sleep!
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Christmas Bells (1865)In context
- Christmas
- Hope
We do not become righteous by doing righteous deeds but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.
Martin Luther1483–1546Disputation against Scholastic Theology (1517), Thesis 40
- Theology
- Virtue
Man is by nature unable to want God to be God. Indeed, he himself wants to be God, and does not want God to be God.
Martin Luther1483–1546Disputation against Scholastic Theology (1517), Thesis 17
- Theology
The whole trouble is that we won’t let God help us.
George MacDonald1824–1905The Marquis of Lossie, Chapter XXVII.
God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation, — a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth.
George MacDonald1824–1905Paul Faber, Surgeon (1879), Ch. 31: A Conscience
- Truth & Lies