Abraham Quotes

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.

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

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.

It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.

Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.

To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

You must never tire fighting Satan.

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn...to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.

Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.

To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.

Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

There is not an inch of any sphere of life over which Jesus Christ does not say, 'Mine.'

If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.

How can you expect me to be perfect...when I am full of contradictions.

the better angels of our nature

We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.

The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.

You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.

The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.

A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.