#abraham

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

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#inspirational #age

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#lying #success

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#angels #christ #him #human #human nature

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#abraham lincoln #bought #freed #lincoln #lodge

The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#code #every #family #head #his

I will begin first to search out this right by that magna charta, that great and faithful charter which was made to Abraham, the father of the faithful, in the name of all his seed. ↗

— Thomas Goodwin

#begin #charter #faithful #father #first

Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they. ↗

— Thomas Goodwin

#accounted #charter #christ #grant #great

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

I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as your poster boy, wouldn't it? ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#abraham lincoln #boy #gay #had #heroes