Incessantly Quote by Rebecca Harding Davis

“For Northerners, victory had confirmed they were on God’s side, fortifying their besetting smugness, and their religion resolved more and more into a pretty,…

— Kurt Andersen

“Each side was sincerely convinced that it was carrying out God’s orders. In the North and the South, soldiers and ministers and civilians believed…

— Kurt Andersen

America, North and South, is a choice land, a land reserved for God's own purposes.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery…

— Angelina Grimke

It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people.

— Ambrose

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But…

— Robert E. Lee

God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice... Our finest moments have come…

— George W. Bush

I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

— Flannery O'Connor

The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

— Richard M. Weaver

“Each believed that God was on his side, for no one raises a hand without convincing himself first that he is right.”

— Andrew Krivak

“We all grew up, those of us who took On the Road to heart. We came to cringe a little at our old favorite…

— Sarah Vowell

Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong…

— Flannery O'Connor