We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.

Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth President of the United States)

I do not doubt that our country will finally come through safe and undivided. But do not misunderstand me… I do not rely on the patriotism of our people… the bravery and devotion of the boys in blue… (or) the loyalty and skill of our generals… But the God of our fathers, Who raised up this country to be the refuge and asylum of the oppressed and downtrodden of all nations, will not let it perish now. I may not live to see it… I do not expect to see it, but God will bring us through safe.

Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth President of the United States)

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy… Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors… You have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth 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 (Sixteenth President of the United States)

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God’s word because it finds me where I am.

Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth President of the United States)

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 (Sixteenth President of the United States)

Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.

Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth President of the United States)

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God’s side.

Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth President of the United States)

When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.

Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth President of the United States)

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth President of the United States)