I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Your organization will take on the personality of its top leaders

The President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - "He is a very common-looking man". The President replied: - "The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them".