Abraham Quotes - Page 10

• "Angelophany" is the visible or otherwise tangible manifestation of angels to human beings. Abraham Lincoln frequently mentioned that he was visited by angels at the White House.

  James R. Lewis

  Angel, White, House

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• The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks and cares of the little household were altogether too heavy for her years and experience.

  John George Nicolay

  Husband, Children, Loss

  John George Nicolay (1922). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History ...”, p.104, Library of Alexandria

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• In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.

  Peter Agre

  Gdp, Squares, Half

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• I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

  Marion Barry

  Law, Stories, Slavery

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• In Kafka we have the modern mind, seemingly self-sufficient, intelligent, skeptical, ironical, splendidly trained for the great game of pretending that the world it comprehends in sterilized sobriety is the only and ultimate real one – yet a mind living in sin with the soul of Abraham. Thus he knows Two things at once, and both with equal assurance: that there is no God, and that there must be God.

  Erich Heller

  Real, Intelligent, Self

  Erich Heller (1975). “Franz Kafka”, Viking Pr

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• Abraham Lincoln, in order to maintain the unity of the United Statesresorted to the use of force.so, I think Abraham Lincoln, president, is a model, is an example.

  Zhu Rongji

  Thinking, Order, Unity

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• Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to having a part in making it known to others.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Men, Unusual, Divine

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1990). “Jehovah's Witnesses I: The Early Writings of J.F. Rutherford”, Taylor & Francis

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• The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address felt.

  David Amram

  Addresses, Firsts, Imagine

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

  Hanoi Hannah

  Liberty, Tradition

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• Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and mysterious object of the biographer's interest, of the historian's comments, of popular legend, and of patriotic devotion.

  Josiah Royce

  Patriotic, Men, Essence

  Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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• Every politician - FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama - they're all conservative by nature. They are part of the big thing and they're moving in a very constrained world.

  Bill Ayers

  Moving, World, Conservative

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• In the Bible angels speak and humans speak back to them. This is the case with Mary in Luke 1. The angel speaks, Mary questions, and it goes back and forth. Abraham speaks with angels. So I would contend the Bible has enough evidence of angels speaking and humans speaking that speaking with an angel today would be reasonable. I've heard enough stories and read such that confirm that Christians today do speak with angels.

  Scot McKnight

  Christian, Angel, Would Be

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Coming out of the anti - coming out of the Republican heritage of Abraham Lincoln, Frank Johnson could see it more clearly than Alabamians would, which led to the big confrontations between Frank Johnson and George Wallace.

  Jeff Sessions

  Heritage, Republican, George Wallace

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• I think that when you look at the great politicians, the two greatest in my view were George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, they certainly had character traits. You also know Abraham Lincoln overcame severe depression problems that he had when he was younger, which gave him the strength and the character later on.

  John McCain

  Inspirational, Strength, Strong

  "Encore Presentation: Interview With John McCain". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. November 20, 2005.

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• Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy that you will feel like you are walking the streets of Washington DC on the night that John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln. This is a hugely entertaining, heart-stopping read.

  Vince Flynn

  Spring, Heart, Night

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• Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a poor family, faced defeat through most of his life. Lost eight elections, failed two businesses, had a nervous breakdown, and still became president.

  Dave Winfield

  Eight, Two, People

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• The verses talked about other Prophets as brothers preaching the same unifying script of mankind, showing every man and woman the way to Paradise. I saw the names of Jesus, of Moses, of Abraham, of Jacob, of Noah and of course, crucially, the name of this last messenger, the last Messenger of God, Muhammad.

  Cat Stevens

  Jesus, Brother, Men

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• Sometimes I think of Abraham
  How one star he saw had been lit for me
  He was a stranger in this land
  And I am that, no less than he
  And on this road to righteousness
  Sometimes the climb can be so steep
  I may falter in my steps
  But never beyond your reach

  Rich Mullins

  Stars, Thinking, Land

  Song: Sometimes By Steps

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• The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little ship could not do both, Lincoln fears that very few can actually think and speak at the same time.

  Norman Corwin

  Moving, Thinking, Blow

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• I think Abraham Lincoln said believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.

  Mike Pence

  Believe, Thinking, Half

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not... to Bill O

  Keith Olbermann

  Children, Animal, Simple

  Keith Olbermann (2006). “The Worst Person In the World: And 202 Strong Contenders”, p.263, John Wiley & Sons

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• There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our industry, to this medium. You have to go back to the 1930s to find a movie that's just about Abraham Lincoln. I just found that my fascination with Lincoln, which started as a child, got to the point where after reading so much about him I thought there was a chance to tell a segment of his life to to moviegoers.

  Steven Spielberg

  Children, Reading, Fascination

  "Steven Spielberg And Daniel Day-Lewis Talk 'Lincoln'". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. November 26, 2012.

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• As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Morning, Essence

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• The blood of Abraham, God's father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God--an anguished cry for peace.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Father, Blood

  Jimmy Carter (2010). “We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David, Solomon, the Prophets, of Jesus, and his apostles.

  Brigham Young

  Jesus, Moses, Prophet

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.328

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