Don’t kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy.

Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth President of the United States)

I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth President of the United States)

Without the assistance of that Divine Being…I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth President of the United States)

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth President of the United States)

I have had so many evidences of [God’s] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth President of the United States)

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth President of the United States)

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth President of the United States)

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 (Sixteenth President of the United States)

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 (Sixteenth President of the United States)

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord’s side.

Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth President of the United States)