#abraham

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It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.


Maurice Switzer


#remaining-silent #wisdom #wisdom

Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.


Kerry Thornley


#abraham lincoln #although #letters #lincoln #madman

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.


Charles Stanley


#before #believers #came #contain #david

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.


Charles Stanley


#american #american foreign policy #foreign #foreign policy #gospel

Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate.


New York Times April


#history #inspirational #lincoln #motivational #inspirational

altho’ Chance produces Irregularities, still the Odds will be infinitely great, that in process of Time, those Irregularities will bear no proportion to the recurreney of that Order which naturally results from ORIGINAL DESIGN


Abraham De Moivre


#chance #de #design #moivre #original

He was a secretive man, who kept his own counsel. He was an ambitious man of humble origins, with colossal designs on the future. And it would always be advantageous not to be closely known, never to be transparent. Passing a farmer on a day, he would tip his hat and grin. Everybody knew him. Nobody knew him. He would play the fool, the clown, the melancholy poet dying for love, the bumpkin. He would take the world by stealth and not by storm. He would disarm enemies by his apparent naiveté, by seeming pleasantly harmless. He would go to such lengths in making fun of his own appearance that others felt obliged to defend it. -Daniel Mark Epstein.


Daniel Mark Epstein


#design

One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hundred awkward questions to the faithful. He drew upon himself the usual thunderous curses—'may his name be forgotten, may his bones be worn to nothing'—along with detailed refutations and denunciations by Abraham ibn Ezra and others. These exciting anathemas, of course, ensured that his worrying 'questions' would remain current for as long as the Orthodox commentaries would be read. In this way, rather as when Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' Jewishness contrives irony at its own expense. If there is one characteristic of Jews that I admire, it is that irony is seldom if ever wasted on them.


Christopher Hitchens


#atheism #curses #heretics #hiwi-al-balkhi #irony

We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did.


Thomas Goodwin


#also #although #belonged #collectively #convey

I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline.


John McCain


#abraham lincoln #am #believe #discipline #fiscal