The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old,… — John George Nicolay Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Your frequency is what you frequently see. Pay attention to synchronicity as there are valuable lessons to be learned in the repetition… — Jennifer Sodini Copy Share Image
For me [Patriarchs] exist. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob exist today. They are people that you see with white beards. I have no… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle… — James Crumley Copy Share Image
Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He stands at the heart of these three faiths. And yet you… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed,… — Thomas Goodwin Copy Share Image
There is a golden thread that runs through every account of faith from the beginning of the world to the present time.… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Too many of us live on the horizontal, vain level of life: We want to acquire more and more things; we want… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
There are certain things we can only do together. There are certain things only a union can do. Only a union could… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Abram could only trust and wait. When he reached the end of his resources—with no suggestions left—God again promised him descendants. This… — Ava Pennington Copy Share Image
How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
From space travel to organ transplants, one of the most important influences shaping the modern world is science. Amazingly, people who lived… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
We constantly see surveys that reveal this ignorance, especially among our high school students,78 percent of whom, in a recent nationwide multiple-choice… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Therefore have the Jews departed from God, in not receiving His Word, but imagining that they could know the Father [apart] by… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
“It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx’s… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so enduring.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“It was his belief, furthermore, that this religion, so elevated and simple, had repeatedly been corrupted and debased by man, and especially… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Half the country seceded from the other half when Abraham Lincoln was elected because half the country couldn't abide his position on… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“We should expect nothing less from the language that was originally given by God, to His human family. Hebrew was the method… — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image
A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution. — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
“Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We know in history that great individuals have totally changed everything, whether it be Jesus Christ or Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Every politician - FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama - they're all conservative by nature. They are part of the big… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The fact that Abraham Lincoln ever, ever became President is either a freak accident of history... or destiny; God's providence to America. — Bill Oberst Jr Copy Share Image
“Sarah made Abraham send Hagar and Ishmael away and thus created the problems in the Middle East. Yes, Lord, she would have… — Genevieve D. Woods Copy Share Image
Abraham responds "Here I am" when God asks him to sacrifice his son, and he answers "Here I am" when his son… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Abraham entered into what God was doing for him, and that was the turning point. He trusted God to set him right… — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and… — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he… — Anne Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“It is not the fault of Ishmael that he was born by a bond woman but it will surely be his fault… — Ikechukwu Izuakor Copy Share Image
I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation;… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image