Abraham Quotes - Page 5

• Many of the Bible characters fell just in the things in which they were thought to be strongest. Moses failed in his humility, Abraham in his faith, Elijah in his courage, for one woman scared him away to that juniper-tree; and Peter, whose strong point was boldness, was so frightened by a maid, as to deny his Lord.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Strong, Character, Humility

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" byJosiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 532), 1895.

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• My grandma would quote Abraham Lincoln all the time: "Whatever you do in life, be a good one."

  Donald Cerrone

  Grandma, Ufc, Mma

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• Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rode to glory on the back of the strong declarative sentence.

  William Zinsser

  Strong, Glory, Sentences

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• Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others - white and black - preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence.

  Ronald Reagan

  Kings, Men, White

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mistake, Stealing, Shows

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.75, Seven Stories Press

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• Founded when Abraham Lincoln believed education could lead the nation out of its darkest days, Ohio State now provides a powerful platform of interdisciplinary academic programs, world-class scholars, outstanding students, and extensive research capabilities.

  Gordon Gee

  Powerful, Class, Ohio State

  "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• To become great, you have to be born great. If you are born again then you are the seed of Abraham. That means you have greatness in you!

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Mean, Greatness, Born Again

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• Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Character, Men, Purpose

  Seth Grahame-Smith (2010). “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• Too many of us live on the horizontal, vain level of life: We want to acquire more and more things; we want the material blessings of life and we are neglecting the elevated state of existence! And that's why God said of Abraham he was neither a Christian nor a Jew, he was a Muslim: he was an upright man.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Christian, Blessing, Men

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.

  Ann Voskamp

  Book, Writing, Kids

  Source: churchleaders.com

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• What Bannon and Trump have presented us with is an idea of America that's not been the traditional idea, not the Walt Whitman idea, not the George Washington, Abraham Lincoln idea, which is one of welcoming because we're the last, best hope of Earth.

  David Brooks

  Ideas, America, Earth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Abraham responds "Here I am" when God asks him to sacrifice his son, and he answers "Here I am" when his son asks him about what is happening. It's a paradoxical moment. He can't be fully present for his God or his son.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Son, Sacrifice, Here I Am

  Source: www.nydailynews.com

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• Now in my view, if you were to line up the Presidents in the order of who made the greatest accomplishments, you'd put Lyndon Johnson in that arena with both Roosevelts probably, and [Abraham] Lincoln and so on. But the idea that Lyndon Johnson was operating as a free agent and coming up with these ideas on his own is nonsense.

  Bill Ayers

  Views, Order, Ideas

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• The great example, the killer example in history, is of course Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator. Read his speeches. Read the debates. Wendell Phillips called him "the great slaver from Illinois."

  Bill Ayers

  Illinois, Example, Speech

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• Frederick Douglass ran a primary campaign against [Abraham Lincoln] the second time around, in 1864. They hated him. Why'd they hate him? Because he said things like "I believe in white supremacy."

  Bill Ayers

  Hate, Believe, White

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• Stand Fast Through the Storms of Life. "You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God... God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings and if you cannot stand it you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial kingdom of God" -John Taylor recalls the words of Joseph Smith to the Twelve. JS manual page 231

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Heart, Men, Storm

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• That's what [Abraham] Lincoln said. "The white man will always be above the black man. I don't want them to run for office, or have political rights, or vote. I want them to go back to Africa."

  Bill Ayers

  Running, Men, Rights

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• Abraham Lincoln was interested in, in saving the Union. Well, most negroes have been tricked into thinking that Lincoln was a negro lover whose primary aim was to free them, and he died because he freed them.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Unions, Saving

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Columbus was an Abraham, for he went out not knowing whither he went. Columbus was a Moses, for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible. Only the man of faith is the man of power. Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. God grant that to-day in that bark we may be wafted by God's blessing, and may land at last on the shores of Heaven, where we shall sing a sweeter Te Deum than that which awoke the echoes on the soil of virgin America, or those amid the splendors of the court at Barcelona.

  Robert Stuart MacArthur

  Blessing, Men, Echoes

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• Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a doubt, or raised a question, only to be told by their family, church, friends, or tribe: "We don't discuss those things here." I believe the discussion itself is divine. Abraham does his best to bargain with God, most of the book of Job consists of arguments by Job and his friends about the deepest questions of human suffering, God is practically on trial in the book of Lamentations, and Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Jobs, Believe

  Rob Bell (2011). “Love Wins: At the Heart of Life’s Big Questions”, p.4, HarperCollins UK

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• The Shield was another of the Fear's names. According to Laughter, it means he shields the seed of Abraham the way a man starting a fire shields the flame. When Sarah was about to die childless, the Fear gave her a son. When Abraham was about to slaughter the son, the Fear gave him the ram. He is always shielding us like a guttering wick, Laughter said, because the fire he is trying to start with us is a fire that the whole world will live to warm its hands at. It is a fire in the dark that will light the whole world home.

  Frederick Buechner

  Laughter, Home, Mean

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• Everything is in it: the promise and the hope and the fear and the challenge and the defiance. The test is a double test: Just as God tested Abraham, Abraham tested God: "Let's see if you really want me to go ahead with it and kill my son." Then the angel says, "Do not raise your hand against the boy" [Genesis 22:12]. It was the Angel of God who says this, not God. God was embarrassed. [All laugh]

  Elie Wiesel

  Angel, Son, Boys

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.

  Elie Wiesel

  Trying, Jewish Faith, Defining Moments

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Abraham Lincoln is the guy who could never be elected today, but whom we desperately wish we could elect.

  Bill Oberst Jr.

  Guy, Wish, Today

  Source: horrornews.net

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• Abraham Lincoln is resolute, honest, has the best interest of the nation at heart, and he's as ugly as homemade Sunday sin, so he is modest, too. I'd vote for that in an undead heartbeat.

  Bill Oberst Jr.

  Heart, Sunday, Ugly

  Source: horrornews.net

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