Abraham Quotes - Page 2

• I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery which Abraham Lincoln denounced from here over 150 years ago.

  Howard Dean

  Believe, America, Years

  "Dean: Country needs serious discussion about race". www.cnn.com. November 6, 2003.

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• My wife told me that in the Bible, Abraham circumcised himself... wow! I can't even get to the bank before it closes.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Wife, Wow, I Can

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• We know in history that great individuals have totally changed everything, whether it be Jesus Christ or Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill or Albert Einstein. I actually think every person can make a difference.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Jesus, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Gay, Thinking, Two

  Source: bigthink.com

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• This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many.

  Dorothy Parker

  Running, Play, Records

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• Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and
  the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced
  by people of all colours and races here in this ancient Holy Land,
  the home of Abraham, Muhammad, and all the other prophets
  of the Holy Scriptures. For the past week, I have been utterly
  speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed
  all around me by people of all colours.

  Malcolm X

  Home, Past, Land

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.347, Ballantine Books

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• John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

  Mark Sheppard

  Teacher, Jesus, Plato

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• It’s been a very old thing for people to gather together and laugh at stuff. The first comedian in America really was Abraham Lincoln. He used to go to a pub near where he lived and stand in front of the fire and he packed the place every night and he would just talk and bust everybody in their guts. He was just a hilarious speaker and that’s what he did.

  Louis C. K.

  Night, America, Fire

  "Quint chats with the Hilarious Louis C.K.!". Interview with Eric Vespe, www.aintitcool.com. January 31, 2010.

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• What is the good news to the poor? Christ took your poverty at the cross and gave you the riches of Abraham. The chains of poverty have been broken at the cross.

  John Hagee

  Broken, Riches, Poverty

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• The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

  Matthew Simpson

  Names

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• The submissive will make it through to that final scene, for the word of God will lead the man and woman of Christ "in a straight and narrow course across that everlasting gulf of misery . . . and land their souls . . . at the right hand of God in the kingdom, to sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and with Jacob, and with all our holy fathers" (Helaman 3:30) "who have been ever since the world began . . . to go no more out."

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Father, Men, Hands

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• My first fight was a little weasel from American called Andre Dirrell. I say that because he runs and holds, and I hope Abraham bangs him out.

  Carl Froch

  Running, Motivation, Fighting

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• God of our fathers,
  you chose Abraham and his descendants
  to bring your Name to the Nations:
  we are deeply saddened by the behaviour of those
  who in the course of history
  have caused these children of yours to suffer,
  and asking your forgiveness we wish to commit ourselves
  to genuine brotherhood
  with the people of the Covenant.

  Pope John Paul II

  Children, Father, Names

  Pope John Paul II's Written prayer placed by the pope into the Western Wall in Jerusalem, during his apostolic journey to the Holy Land, w2.vatican.va. March 26, 2000.

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• The biblical passage which says of Abraham and the three visiting angels: "And He stood over them under the tree and they did eat" is interpreted by Rabbi Zusya to the effect that man stands above the angels, because he knows something unknown to them, namely, that eating may be hallowed by the eater's intention.... Any natural act, if hallowed, leads to God, and nature needs man for what no angel can perform on it, namely, its hallowing.

  Martin Buber

  Angel, Biblical, Men

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• I would LOVE to be in the Star Trek sequel! Yeah! I would love to! I better write that letter to J.J.[Abrahams]

  Rachel Weisz

  Stars, Writing, Letters

  Source: collider.com

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• Jay Abraham's client sent him $50,000 a month for a long time for writing one headline. That's what people who understand communication can do.

  Eben Pagan

  Communication, Writing, Long

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• Lyndon Johnson (with Abraham Lincoln close behind). Johnson was able to get things done, to read other people, and to adjust his own approach accordingly. One of the reasons he has so fascinated biographer Robert Caro over the years is Johnson's consummate skill in acquiring and using influence.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Skills, Years, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We find that alchemy has to do with magicians or magic and may even have roots in the Chaldean people who lived in the land that we now call Iraq.Abraham emerged and took a flock of people with him into Egypt. They were later called the Hebrews because of the valleys that they came out of. The alchemy that they saw was a transformative power within the individuals to affect the "out there" reality - and that, of course, is the basis of shamanism and is the basis for most magical and so-called Third World belief systems.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Reality, Egypt, Land

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?

  Thomas Frank

  Wall, Government, Opinion Leaders

  "Bipartisanship Is a Silly Beltway Obsession" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2009.

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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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• For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.

  King Hussein I

  Children, Birth Place, Together

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• I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Doe, Slavery, Tests

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.410, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'

  Paul Ryan

  Commitment, Opportunity, Giving

  "Rep. Paul Ryan on Saving the American Idea". dailysignal.com. October 26, 2011.

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• When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.

  James Crumley

  Spring, Drinking, Heart

  James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.10, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Why does anyone do anything? Belief. A belief that they are right and just in their actions. Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son, Isaac, because he believed that God had commanded it. To kill your son is unthinkable. A crime. But if you are acting in the belief that your God, your supreme deity whom you must obey, has demanded it of you, is it still a crime?

  Libba Bray

  Son, Sacrifice, Acting

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