#abraham

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church. ↗

— William Ames

#absolutely #any #assent #church #even

No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool. ↗

— Thomas Vernor Smith

#abraham lincoln #death #does #dubbed #fool

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#inspirational #age

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#gardening #self-sufficiency #art

When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union’s side, Lincoln’s unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were on God’s side. ↗

— Joe L. Wheeler

#faith #god #history #courage

Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God’s will. ↗

— Joe L. Wheeler

#courage #faith #god #courage

But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them. ↗

— Bruce Feiler

#god #faith

Extermination of city could be prevented by presence of a few who have faith of God. ↗

— Toba Beta

#sodom-and-gomorrah #faith

If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel good. You would free yourself of all of that cumbersome impossibility of needing to control the world, or control your mate, or control your child. You are the only one who creates your reality. For no one else can think for you, no one else can do it. It is only you, every bit of it you. ↗

— Esther Hicks

#abraham-hicks #allow #control-freaks #control-issues #controlling

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#angels #christ #him #human #human nature