Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.

Abraham Lincoln

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• The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

  

  A. E. Housman
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• Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

  Francesca Annis
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• Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• I hope to bring people to God with my songs.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
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• There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

  

  Saint Ambrose
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• If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
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• God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Father
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• Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
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• I don't believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to have seen one because then I could believe in God. If I can see it, feel it and taste it, then I believe in it.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • God
  • Believe
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• I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Work
  • God
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• And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.

  

  Ferdowsi
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• As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
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• If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
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• The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.

  

  Said Nursi
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• Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Music
  • God
  • Book

• What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

  

  J. I. Packer
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• Years ago, it wasn't easy to communicate, and it wasn't easy to spread information. We were limited to the few media outlets that controlled viewership around the world and, by consequence, controlled the public opinion. But today, this platform is democratized. Any community around the world can help. That is the great thing about our time.

  

  Yasmine Elmasri
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  • Great

• There are some sentences you cannot see yourself ever writing. 'I heartily endorse the Conservative Party' would be one. 'I look forward to Justin Bieber's new record' would be another.

  

  John Niven
  • Writing
  • Party

• So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

  

  Ruggiero Ricci
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• I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • I Think
  • Bread