Proclamation Quotes

It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.

— George Washington

Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.

— David Platt

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Well, before the New Deal...[The Emancipation Proclamation] would be a good start.

— Ann Coulter

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions...

— George Washington

If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.

— Malcolm X

You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you.

— Pope Francis

The most glorious reason you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the world. And…

— David Platt

And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

— Abraham Lincoln

Jesus Christ rose from the grave.' With this proclamation, the Christian church began. This may be the fundamental element of Christian faith;…

— Elaine Pagels

. . . unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down.

— Francis James Grimke

It is because of the doctrine of judgment and hell that Jesus' proclamations of grace and love are so astounding.

— Timothy Keller

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

— Roger L'Estrange

To speak the gospel skillfully without attempting to perform the gospel is a false proclamation of the gospel.

— William Henry Willimon

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

— Abraham Lincoln

The Emancipation Proclamation...can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate…

— Aberjhani

For us in the Pacific, in Asia, in India, and in Africa, Christian unity is not an optional extra. It is an…

— John Vockler

“On the lips of the catechist the first proclamation must ring out over and over: “Jesus Christ loves you; he gave his…

— Pope Francis

Sola scriptura means at least this: that the church's proclamation is always subject to potential correction from the canon. It is for…

— Anonymous

The proclamation of the Gospel remains the primary service that the Church owes to humanity, to offer the salvation of Christ to…

— Pope Benedict XVI

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held…

— Abraham Lincoln

Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The…

— Mark Dever

Begum Hazrat Mahal of Oudh was the last of the breed of able queens and generals. The queen led her kingdom's army…

— Qurratulain Hyder

Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can,…

— Albert Camus

I had not been married scarcely five minutes, and made one proclamation of the Gospel, before it was reported that I had…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth…

— Mary Ritter Beard

I thank Missio, (Pontifical Mission Societies), the primary instruments for cooperation in the universal Church's universal mission in the world. Through their…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract…

— Abraham Lincoln

We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

While our heart for social justice grows out from the gospel, social justice by itself will not communicate the gospel. We need…

— Darrin Patrick

Lincoln has accepted America as a biracial society. He's talking about giving at least some black men the right to vote. In…

— Eric Foner

“It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and not celebrated until 'Juneteenth'.…

— Christopher Hitchens

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

— Abraham Lincoln

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins,…

— Lyndon B Johnson

An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process.

— Frank Bruno

Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.

— Mary Robinson

“It's a proclamation he regards as complete absolution from answering...as if his last name was Bush, he was eighteen, and there was…

— Laurie Notaro

The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but…

— Michael Horton

Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time…

— Henry Miller