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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.

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.

Abraham Lincoln
Leadership, God, Wisdom

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Atheist, Humor
Abraham Lincoln (2001). “Lincoln's Words: Sentiments from the 16th President of the United States”

In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.

Abraham Lincoln
Bible, God, Religious
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.542, Wildside Press LLC

And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.

Abraham Lincoln
Bible, God, Religious
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1148, Jazzybee Verlag

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Patriotic, Divorce
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.373, Wildside Press LLC

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Memories, Father
Letter to Lydia Bixby, 21 Nov. 1864.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Civil War, Divine Will
"Meditation on the DivineWill," ca. 2 Sept. 1862

Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.

Abraham Lincoln
Bible, God, Religious
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1148, Jazzybee Verlag

And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Religious, Fear
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.261, Library of America

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.

Abraham Lincoln
Motivational, God, Dream
Abraham Lincoln, Archer Hayes Shaw (1980). “The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference”, Greenwood Pub Group

We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Errors, God Knows Best
Abraham Lincoln, H. Jack Lang (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches”, p.240, Stackpole Books

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

Abraham Lincoln
Bible, God, Religious
Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches”, p.44, Penguin

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.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Business, Work
Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

The Almighty has His own purposes.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Civil War, Purpose
Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Men, Differences
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.477, ReadHowYouWant.com

We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Light, Giving
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1392, Jazzybee Verlag

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Abraham Lincoln
God, Likes, Forget

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

Abraham Lincoln
God, God Knows Best, Mortals
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.627, Library of America

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
God, Party, Civil War
"Meditation on the DivineWill," ca. 2 Sept. 1862

This nation under God

Abraham Lincoln
Bible, God, Religious
Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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
God, Patriotic, Government
Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

The will of God prevails.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Gods Will
Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.359, Library of America

I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Selfishness, Helping
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1041, Jazzybee Verlag

We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Wise, War
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.478, Wildside Press LLC

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

Abraham Lincoln
God, Party, Struggle
Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.272, Penguin