As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
God is everywhere.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
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.
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
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.
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.
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
