Top 437 Abraham Quotes & Sayings

Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one.

Johnny Cash was like Abraham Lincoln to me.

Everything is in it: the promise and the hope and the fear and the challenge and the defiance. The test is a double test: Just as God tested Abraham, Abraham tested God: "Let's see if you really want me to go ahead with it and kill my son." Then the angel says, "Do not raise your hand against the boy" [Genesis 22:12]. It was the Angel of God who says this, not God. God was embarrassed. [All laugh]

The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.

It isn't. The Book of Abraham is not central to the restored gospel of Christ.

It may here be observed, that all who are offended by us are exposed to our view. But the rich man sees Lazarus not with any other righteous man, but in Abraham's bosom. For Abraham was full of love, but the man is convicted of cruelty. Abraham sitting before his door followed after those that passed by, and brought them into his house, the other turned away even them that abode within his gate.

My freind is the man who gives me a book I aint read."Abraham Linclion

It was not to save a nation that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, nor to appease angry gods... Then why does Abraham do it? For God's sake... He does it for the sake of God because God demands proof of his faith... He was not justified by being virtuous, but by being an individual submitted to God in faith.

Even the written history [of Abraham Lincoln's times] is poorly understood by most people.

There's no one who I believe has ever captured the soul of America more profoundly than Abraham Lincoln has.

Abraham Lincoln, who said, A house divided... is a condominium. Never got a dinner!

Our self (Soul) is maya (an illusion) where it is merely individual and finite, where it considers its separateness as absolute; it is satyam (truth) where it recognizes its essence in the universal and infinite, in the Supreme Self, in paramatman (God). This is what Christ means when he says, "Before Abraham was, I am" (i.e. before Abraham was God, who is the same that is in my soul - I am That.)

Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rode to glory on the back of the strong declarative sentence.

Even the poorest in Israel are looked upon as freemen who have lost their possessions, for they are the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.

If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.

Very exceeding wonderful is the history concerning Abraham, for the kingdom of Christ is therein wholly represented.

No country has ever fallen while it was truly honoring the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. There's the ancient connection right there.

If you look only as Genesis as an allegory, you have a major problem, because if it's an allegory, then tell me who our ancestor was? If Abraham was real, then from Abraham if Adam isn't real, if it's just an allegory, it's just a story, then what's the real Adam who really fell in a garden and really sinned? Where did we come from?

My grandma would quote Abraham Lincoln all the time: "Whatever you do in life, be a good one."

Mr. Dallstrom is a bald, scarecrow of a man with a poochy stomache. Think of a pregnant Abraham Lincoln.

The nations are not gathered in automatically. If God has promised to bless "all the families of the earth," he has promised to do so "through Abraham's seed" (Genesis 12:3, 22:18). Now we are Abraham's seed by faith, and the earth's families will be blessed only if we go to them with the gospel. That is God's plain purpose.

I think that when you look at the great politicians, the two greatest in my view were George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, they certainly had character traits. You also know Abraham Lincoln overcame severe depression problems that he had when he was younger, which gave him the strength and the character later on.

I assume, gladly, that in the allocation to America of remarkable leaders like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln, the Lord was just as careful. After all, if you've got only one Abraham Lincoln, you'd better put him in that point in history when he's most needed-much as some of us might like to have him now.

We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did.

And always remember, Abraham Lincoln only served one term in Congress, too.

I have existed before Abraham was born.

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.

The Shield was another of the Fear's names. According to Laughter, it means he shields the seed of Abraham the way a man starting a fire shields the flame. When Sarah was about to die childless, the Fear gave her a son. When Abraham was about to slaughter the son, the Fear gave him the ram. He is always shielding us like a guttering wick, Laughter said, because the fire he is trying to start with us is a fire that the whole world will live to warm its hands at. It is a fire in the dark that will light the whole world home.

Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant.

Moses, Aaron, Abraham, they're all a waste of time. It's your ass that's on the line.

I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.

In this temple As in the hearts of the people For whom he saved the Union The memory of Abraham Lincoln Is enshrined forever

In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

I think Abraham Lincoln said believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.

Abraham Lincoln got shot and died, Freed the slaves so they put him on the five.

The election of the Jewish people is the result of God's falling in love with Abraham and founding a family with him.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow

I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.

Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust.

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.

Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.

It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.

Abraham Lincoln was a melancholy man, so he had a dark side that appeals to horror fans.

I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.

I don't know that there has ever been a time when Abraham Lincoln didn't stand head-and-shoulders above all other presidents in the historians' eye. But relatively speaking, there have been peaks and a troughs. One peak was in the 1910s-20s; a major trough was in the 1970s-80s. We are certainly on a peak again, something which began in 1994 with Michael Burlingame's 'The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln,' which showed in fabulous detail how many new and untapped sources were available on Lincoln.

The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln was the father of a nation and had enormous beliefs that stood well.

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.

Abraham Lincoln, in order to maintain the unity of the United Statesresorted to the use of force.so, I think Abraham Lincoln, president, is a model, is an example.

All is made clear,regarding Abraham and Sarah's traversal into Egypt, when we realize what biblicists meant by the term "Egypt." As Ralph Ellis so brilliantly points out, the name Egypt was employed by the composers of the Old Testament to denote Thebes in Lower Egypt. This was the city and region controlled by the adversaries of the Hyksos. It was considered a separate region, with different rulers, gods, customs, and politics. So, it was not the country of Egypt that Abraham visited, but Thebes within Egypt.

I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.

Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.