#abraham

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

For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#misattributed-abraham-lincoln #humor

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#life #politics #religion #science #life

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately happy. What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization. ↗

— Abraham Harold Maslow

#motivation #psychology #self-actualization #motivational

If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln. ↗

— Sam Waterston

#abraham lincoln #i #like #lincoln #typecast

I will begin first to search out this right by that magna charta, that great and faithful charter which was made to Abraham, the father of the faithful, in the name of all his seed. ↗

— Thomas Goodwin

#begin #charter #faithful #father #first

Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they. ↗

— Thomas Goodwin

#accounted #charter #christ #grant #great

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh. ↗

— Hanoi Hannah

#abraham lincoln #always #chi #compared #i