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Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.


Abraham Lincoln

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JOE L. WHEELER Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God’s will.
JOE L. WHEELER When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union’s side, Lincoln’s unvarying response was that wha...
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DINAH MARIA MULOCK "When the Son of Man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?" If He should now come, would He find...
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KEVIN DEYOUNG It is to such men as Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson and Jackson and Franklin, all most lowly born, th...
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CRAIG GROESCHEL When the challenges of mortality come, and they come for all of us, it may seem hard to have faith a...
ROBERT BEVERLY HALE In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave...
DAN SIMMONS All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD Jesus says to anyone who uses their faith or lack of faith to excuse their acts of disobedience to h...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Grant us a common faith that man shall know bread and peacethat he shall know justice and righteousn...
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET But if he had come down from the Cross, he would have made it impossible for them to believe ...
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SAM WATERSTON The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures,...
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ERIC BUTTERWORTH It is difficult to have faith when our hearts are consumed by fear, but it is when we are afraid tha...
A.A. FRIAS Prayer is humbly longing to know the Father’s will.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA He [Lincoln] had no faith, in the Christian sense of the term - he had faith in laws, principles, ca...
DAVID DAVIS Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everyth...
RONALD REAGAN We have tried to reach a settlement through good faith negotiations and regret that our efforts have...
NEIL ASPINALL We're not trying to prove anything, other than what our faith requires us to do. What goes with our ...
MAHDI BRAY It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt...
MAURICE SWITZER That night was the most terrible night that we guards ever endured... I myself felt as if our govern...
HARRY HOOVER Oh Lord, give us faith... Give us faith in each other; faith in our united crusade.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We weren't sure she would make it, but at least we could name her. We chose 'Faith' because we felt ...
GREGORY ROWLAND Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The road may be too long, as the eyes could dare see. But trust not the eyes, but your faith. Faith ...
MAICHEE SUMMER Some people say it will take another miracle for this Congress and administration to find a way to w...
TOM DASCHLE Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!
SUZANNE BROCKMANN Sometimes we don’t have enough faith to do big things, it is immature faith
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VANNEVAR BUSH Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of ...
VANNEVAR BUSH Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thi...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of ac...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR. Let us know our differences! Let us understand our differences! Let us know and understand that we a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for al...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is a dangerous world -- things that happen far away hit our doorstep, and affect our lives . And ...
WILL SIMONS Faith in God is the gift that takes us beyond our limited self, with all its incessant demands. It o...
VINCENT NICHOLS Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century Faith is indeed the energy of our whole uni...
B. F. WESTCOTT We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we h...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we hav...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity,...
BIBLE Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.
CARTER LINDBERG Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in th...
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote t...
DEAN KOONTZ That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
EMINEM Certainly in the Capitol you do get moments were you sort of take a deep breath and think of all the...
KEVIN YODER Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
VINCENT VAN GOGH If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the fai...
GRAHAM GREENE Those that do teach young babes, Do it with gentle means and easy tasks; He might have chid me so; f...
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W. E. B. DU BOIS The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
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ANTHONY T. HINCKS Prayer is not meant to always give us the answers we want. It is not the resting place upon which th...
ELIZABETH D. MARIE It means a lot to me that my coaches and teammates have a lot of faith in me. I just want to go out ...
DONELL TAYLOR We need to grow from faith to faith so that we can have victory over the world
SUNDAY ADELAJA Faith belongs to the human spirit. Faith is faith. Humanity is divided by religion, religion is the ...
C. JOYBELL C. Is it not by learning to read the book of nature with the eyes of faith that we come to recognize th...
ADRIANA KOULIAS America's a faith-based experiment as a country. We should celebrate and invite faith. And our m...
SAM BROWNBACK Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off...
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WILLIAM H. PRYOR In the Bible, faith is a mixture of trust and trustworthiness. To have complete confidence in God ma...
ROBERT MACKIE Let’s not look for excuses to our laziness- but let’s have a faith that we are able to do EVERYT...
SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his...
GEORGE BUSH What if initially they had named you Faith and me Hope, but afterwards they forgot who of us had whi...
IGOR ELISEEV It reminds us whether we're Catholic or another denomination, or whether we don't have the gift of f...
DAVE BAKER The Holy Ghost has as a major purpose witnessing that Jesus is the Christ. As we plead for help in H...
HENRY B. EYRING We are just so thankful that Christ does not measure us by what we do. God is not measuring us by th...
BEN ZOBRIST In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Galvin uses the word 'faith' several times in his summation to the jury, ... He says, 'In my faith, ...
SIDNEY LUMET With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot ac...
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as full...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us pro...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelit...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safe...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN All I have learned, I learned from books.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a ca...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Achievement has no color
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other gen...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The br...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build o...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remem...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The President to-night has a dream: He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who h...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advan...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and e...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him ru...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be p...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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