#abraham

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church. ↗

— William Ames

#absolutely #any #assent #church #even

I therefore shared fully the intense chagrin of the New York and other State delegations when, on the third ballot, Abraham Lincoln received a larger vote than Seward. ↗

— Henry Villard

#abraham lincoln #ballot #chagrin #fully #i

There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t the slightest idea what it is. … Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time. ↗

— Seth Grahame-Smith

#vampires #war #death

I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so enduring. Christianity and Islam, theistic though they may claim to be, are both based on the fetishizing of human primates: Jesus in one case and Mohammed in the other. Neither of these figures can be called exactly historical but both have one thing in common even in their quasi-mythical dimension. Both of them were first encountered by the Jews. And the Jews, ravenous as they were for any sign of the long-sought Messiah, were not taken in by either of these two pretenders, or not in large numbers or not for long. If you meet a devout Christian or a believing Muslim, you are meeting someone who would give everything he owned for a personal, face-to-face meeting with the blessed founder or prophet. But in the visage of the Jew, such ardent believers encounter the very figure who did have such a precious moment, and who spurned the opportunity and turned shrugging aside. Do you imagine for a microsecond that such a vile, churlish transgression will ever be forgiven? I myself certainly hope that it will not. The Jews have seen through Jesus and Mohammed. In retrospect, many of them have also seen through the mythical, primitive, and cruel figures of Abraham and Moses. Nearer to our own time, in the bitter combats over the work of Marx and Freud and Einstein, Jewish participants and protagonists have not been the least noticeable. May this always be the case, whenever any human primate sets up, or is set up by others, as a Messiah. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#antisemitism #atheism #christianity #christians #einstein

It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#achieved #ammunition #brand #failed #grasp

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party. ↗

— Barack Obama

#abraham lincoln #founder #leader #lincoln #our

I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter. ↗

— Burton Richter

#born #child #elder #fanny #i

It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations. ↗

— Thomas Goodwin

#also #both #generations #jews #privilege

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#gardening #self-sufficiency #art

When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#abraham lincoln #child #choose #crush #had