What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.
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.
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s life in your years.
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.