The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth President of the United States)

All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.

Abraham Lincoln (Sixteenth President of the United States)

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 (Sixteenth President of the United States)

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)