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Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant.


John Pearson


#accepted #covenant #great #his #isaac

That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President.


John Sergeant Wise


#abraham lincoln #choice #conceive #could #i

Keep in mind too, our failures serve to teach us, and usually teach us more than our successes do. What we may perceive as a failure is also an opportunity for someone else to rise to the occasion and perform a mitzvah, or mitzvot. Do not begrudge someone their joyous performance of mitzvot. Sometimes, perhaps even more often then you may think, what we consider our failures were blessings in disguise for ourselves, or others, or everyone. Abraham did not change the world just because he himself changed, and followed his own destiny. He changed the world through his giving others opportunities to rise to their own greatness.


Laura Weakley


#changing-the-world #inspirational-religious #life-and-living #mitzvah #repairing-the-world

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.


Seth Grahame-Smith


#equality #freedom #equality

One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hundred awkward questions to the faithful. He drew upon himself the usual thunderous curses—'may his name be forgotten, may his bones be worn to nothing'—along with detailed refutations and denunciations by Abraham ibn Ezra and others. These exciting anathemas, of course, ensured that his worrying 'questions' would remain current for as long as the Orthodox commentaries would be read. In this way, rather as when Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' Jewishness contrives irony at its own expense. If there is one characteristic of Jews that I admire, it is that irony is seldom if ever wasted on them.


Christopher Hitchens


#atheism #curses #heretics #hiwi-al-balkhi #irony

For when God is said by these things to try men and prove them, to see what is in their hearts and whether they will keep His commandments or no, we are not to understand, that it is for His own information, or that He may obtain evidence Himself of their sincerity (for he needs no trials for His information); but chiefly for their conviction, and to exhibit evidence to their consciences... So when God tempted or tried Abraham with that difficult command of offering up his son, it was not for His satisfaction, whether he feared God or no, but for Abraham's own greater satisfaction and comfort, and the more clear manifestation of the favour of God to him.


Jonathan Edwards


#adversity #faith #trials #faith

You don't get drown by falling into a river. You get drown by remaining there. Falling accidentally and rising immediately was what distinguished Thomas Edison and Abraham Lincoln from the rest.


Israelmore Ayivor


#distinct #distinguish #don-t-quit #drown #excellence

Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.


Drew Carey


#abraham lincoln #ago #day #essentially #fit

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.


Luke Ford


#abraham lincoln #books #churchill #david #heroes

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.


Matthew Simpson


#abraham lincoln #imperishable #lincoln #name






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