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  • No country has ever fallen while it was truly honoring the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. -- Louie Gohmert
  • The election of the Jewish people is the result of God's falling in love with Abraham and founding a family with him. -- Meir Soloveichik
  • Abraham Lincoln suggested never presume to know what God's will is, and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words. -- Sarah Palin
  • We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us. -- Thomas Goodwin
  • Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that! -- Charles Studd
  • O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections. -- George Whitefield
  • Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God. -- Anne Graham Lotz
  • Abraham wasn't perfect. He failed, made mistakes. But, he would go back, get right with God, and then just keep moving forward. He didn't quit when things got hard. He just kept on going. And everywhere he went, God was there. God was with him. -- Anne Graham Lotz
  • Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church. -- William Ames
  • We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham. -- King Hussein I
  • Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly submitted; how the farce went on till the lad was bound and laid on the altar, and how God then stopped the murder, and blessed the intending murderer for his willingness to commit the crime. -- Annie Besant
  • God the first garden made, and the first city Cain. -- Abraham Cowley
  • He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished. -- Abraham Clark
  • That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • We want more men and women who walk with God and before God, like Enoch and Abraham. -- J. C. Ryle
  • The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln. -- John F. Kennedy
  • How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment? -- Anne Hutchinson
  • 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
  • But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us. -- Ken Follett
  • Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen. -- Blaise Pascal
  • If you have been given a word from God, you must continue in that direction until it comes to pass (even twenty five years like Abraham). -- Henry Blackaby
  • Islam undoubtedly deserves respect. It has some things in common with Christianity, such as Abraham as a common progenitor, and the belief in only one God. -- Walter Kasper
  • I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side. -- John F. Kerry
  • We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man. -- Sam Harris
  • I think we have reason to thank God for Abraham Lincoln. -- Lydia M. Child
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