Abraham Quotes

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

If you can be interested in other people you can own the world.

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

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

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.

We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Innovation basically involves making obsolete that which you did before.

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

We do what we are and we are what we do.

To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!

Everybody likes a compliment.

Prosperity is the fruit of labor. It begins with saving money.

You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.