"Abraham Lincoln - “I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”"
— Abraham Lincoln

"No! No one who was great in the world will be forgotten, but everyone was great in his own way, and everyone in proportion to the greatness of that which he loved. He who loved himself became great by virtue of himself, and he who loved other men became great by his devotedness, but he who loved God became the greatest of all. Everyone shall be remembered, but everyone became great in proportion to his expectancy. One became great by expecting the possible, another by expecting the eternal; but he who expected the impossible became the greatest of all. Everyone shall be remembered, but everyone was great wholly in proportion to the magnitude of that with which he struggled. For he who struggled with the world became great by conquering the world, and he who struggled with himself became great by conquering himself, but he who struggled with God became the greatest of all. Thus did they struggle in the world, man against man, one against thousands, but he who struggled with God was the greatest of all. Thus did they struggle on earth: there was one who conquered everything by his power, and there was one who conquered God by his powerlessness. There was one who relied upon himself and gained everything; there was one who in the security of his own strength sacrificed everything; but the one who believed God was the greatest of all. There was one who was great by virtue of his power, and one who was great by virtue of his hope, and one who was great by virtue of his love, but Abraham was the greatest of all, great by that power whose strength is powerlessness, great by that wisdom which is foolishness, great by that hope whose form is madness, great by the love that is hatred to oneself."
— Søren Kierkegaard

"The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land."
— Abraham Lincoln

"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession."
— Abraham Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln : Speeches and Writings 1832-1858)

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


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— Abraham Lincoln

"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."
— Abraham Lincoln

""If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference." "
— Abraham Lincoln

"But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.


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— Bruce Feiler (Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths)

"“Understand that all thoughts create — and the more emotion that is present at the time that a thought is set in motion, the faster the creation will be received — and as frequent thought is given in any direction, without the hindrance of negative thought, there is certain creation, eventually.”"
— Abraham as told by Esther Hicks

"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.­­

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— Abraham Lincoln