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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• One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'

  

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

  

  Victoria Osteen
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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
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  • Wish

• 'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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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
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  • 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.

  

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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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• And for ther is so gret diversite In Englissh and in writyng of oure tonge, So prey I God that non myswrite the, Ne the mysmetre for defaute of tonge; And red wherso thow be, or elles songe, That thow be understonde, God I biseche!

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer
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• The God who guides the stars, unhasting and unresting, will as assuredly fulfill what He has promised.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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• We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

  

  Albert Ellis
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• I see girls who are so skinny on the catwalks, and I know so many of them destroy their lives and their family's lives.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Family
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• The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • Philosophical
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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