Walking with Lincoln Quotes

“You boys remind me of a farmer friend of mine in Illinois, who said he could never understand why the Lord put the curl in a pig’s tail. It never seemed to him to be either useful or ornamental, but he reckoned the Almighty knew what he was doing when he put it there.” In other words, notes Wilson in Lincoln’s Sword, “Just because we can’t understand the purpose of things, however insignificant, doesn’t mean that there is none.” We”
― Thomas Freiling, Walking with Lincoln: Spiritual Strength from America's Favorite President

“clergyman who expressed the hope that the “Lord was on our side.” Lincoln responded, “I am not at all concerned about that, for I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord’s side.” How”
― Thomas Freiling, Walking with Lincoln: Spiritual Strength from America's Favorite President

“Probably it is to be my lot to go on in twilight, feeling and reasoning my way through life, as questioning, doubting Thomas did. But in my poor, maimed way, I bear with me as I go on a spirit of desire for a faith that was with him of olden time, who, in his need, as I in mine, exclaimed, “Help thou my unbelief. ” Abraham Lincoln”
― Thomas Freiling, Walking with Lincoln: Spiritual Strength from America's Favorite President

“In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book”
― Thomas Freiling, Walking with Lincoln: Spiritual Strength from America's Favorite President

“I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go”
― Thomas Freiling, Walking with Lincoln: Spiritual Strength from America's Favorite President

“Lincoln cautioned, “Intoxicated by unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.” Your weakness is made perfect in God’s”
― Thomas Freiling, Walking with Lincoln: Spiritual Strength from America's Favorite President

“Abe was awful lazy . . . he was always reading and thinking—”
― Thomas Freiling, Walking with Lincoln: Spiritual Strength from America's Favorite President

“I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. Abraham Lincoln”
― Thomas Freiling, Walking with Lincoln: Spiritual Strength from America's Favorite President

“To these warnings Lincoln replied: “I see no other safeguard against these murderers, but to be always ready to die, as Christ advises it. As we must all die sooner or later, it makes very little difference to me whether I die from a dagger plunged through the heart or from an inflammation of the lungs.”
― Thomas Freiling, Walking with Lincoln: Spiritual Strength from America's Favorite President

“his “religious convictions were superior in depth and purity to those, not only of political leaders of his day, but of religious leaders of the era.”
― Thomas Freiling, Walking with Lincoln: Spiritual Strength from America's Favorite President