Top 100 Quotes About Abraham
#1. In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
Abraham H. Maslow
#4. How slowly life moves when you're dead. Another day, another hour, another night in bed. I want to live awake. I've been sleeping. Sleepwalking.
Pearl Abraham
#6. Being used now, in order to force slavery on to Kansas; for it cannot be done in any other way. [Sensation.] The
Abraham Lincoln
#7. There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
Abraham Cowley
#8. Knowledge (curriculum) and behavior (pedagogy) are embedded in everyone's core beliefs about the nature of God, humanity, and the world.
Abraham Kuyper
#9. The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.
Abraham Kuyper
#10. We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#11. People who kill time are themselves not alive.
Amit Abraham
#12. I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.
Abraham Pais
#13. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
Abraham Lincoln
#14. Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?
[Lutheran theologian Abraham Calovius illustrating his objection to heliocentrism due to the Bible's support of geocentrism]
Abraham Calovius
#15. The poorest in America are the sickets. Poor people can't afford preventive care or insurance. The poor don't see doctors. They show up at our doorstep when things are advanced.
Abraham Verghese
#17. The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.
Amit Abraham
#18. I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
Abraham Lincoln
#19. The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.
Abraham Lincoln
#21. 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.
Abraham Lincoln
#22. As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
Abraham Robinson
#23. Levi was not so pious. Surely, it never occurred to Abraham that God was toying with him.
Tam Linsey
#24. What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.
Abraham Maslow
#25. When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need even a speck of flattery.
Abraham Isaac Kook
#26. I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.
Abraham Lincoln
#27. We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.
Abraham Lincoln
#28. Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
Abraham Lincoln
#29. When it comes to fighting for your rights don't fold hands but turn them into fists.
Amit Abraham
#30. There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.
Abraham Lincoln
#31. The path was worn and slippery. My foot slipped from under me, knocking the other out of the way, but I recovered and said to myself, "It's a slip and not a fall.
Abraham Lincoln
#32. Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.
Anonymous
#34. A mighty pain to love it is,
And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.
Abraham Cowley
#36. He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
Abraham Maslow
#37. Dear billion dollar eyes they are a paupers dream
Amit Abraham
#38. If one doesn't have a character like Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc, a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you want to eat, but with a bad conscience.
Maria Augusta Von Trapp
#40. Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
Abraham Lincoln
#42. Truth is generally the best vindication against slander
Abraham Lincoln
#44. There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust.
Daniel Abraham
#46. I am the God of your father Abraham' (Genesis 26:24a). God is not just identifying himself: he is also reaffirming his commitment. As the Lord was with Abraham, so he will be with Isaac. As his power was seen in the life of Abraham, so it will also be seen in the life of Isaac.
Samuel Ngewa
#47. Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.
Abraham Lincoln
#48. What neither the reader nor Stone would accept was that his self-amputation was as much and act of conceit as it was an act of heroism p 61
Abraham Verghese
#49. As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.
Abraham Lincoln
#51. Whatever you are, be a good one. - ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Mark Sanborn
#52. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.
Abraham Lincoln
#53. If we magnified our successes as much as we magnify our disappointments, we'd all be much happier
Abraham Lincoln
#54. I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol.
Abraham Whipple
#55. Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail ... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.
Abraham Lincoln
#56. There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.
John Wooden
#57. The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
Abraham Cowley
#58. When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.
Christopher Morley
#59. The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#60. Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.
Abraham Lincoln
#61. I joke, but only half joke, that if you show up in an American hospital missing a finger, no one will believe you until they get a CAT scan, MRI and orthopedic consult.
Abraham Verghese
#62. We generally look around for what is not there fretting over it and thus letting go of what is there.
Amit Abraham
#64. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.
Abraham Lincoln
#65. The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
Abraham Maslow
#66. We cannot make Him visible to us, but we can make ourselves visible to Him," said Abraham Joshua Heschel
Philip Yancey
#67. Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.
Abraham Lincoln
#68. Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
Abraham Lincoln
#69. Life is full of signs. The trick is to know how to read them. Ghosh called this heuristics, a method for solving a problem for which no formula exists.
Abraham Verghese
#70. Water stains like liver spots dotted the floors, ceiling, and walls while the smell of warm wood rot hung in the air thick like an old whore's perfume.
Matt Abraham
#71. The world disappoints us all, and the ways we change our own stories to survive that disappointment are beautiful and tragic and hilarious.
Daniel Abraham
#72. Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."
Abraham Maslow
#74. But the young sapper was already on his back, the rifle aimed, his eye almost brushing the beards of Noah and Abraham and the variety of demons until he reached the great face and was stilled by it, the face like a spear, wise, unforgiving.
Michael Ondaatje
#75. I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.
Abraham Lincoln
#76. Must is the word ... You can not fail if you resolutely determine that you will not ... Always bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important that any other thing.
Abraham Lincoln
#77. The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.
F. Murray Abraham
#78. One never fails until they fail at trying to succeed.
Amit Abraham
#79. My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I ... fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.
Abraham Lincoln
#81. Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
Abraham Cowley
#82. Stay on the ground because ultimately every one goes up.
Amit Abraham
#83. There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
Abraham Lincoln
#85. Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.
Abraham Myerson
#86. Doubt is a first cousin to faith, Ghosh. To have faith, you have to suspend your disbelief.
Abraham Verghese
#87. When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.
Abraham Lincoln
#88. The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.
Abraham Lincoln
#89. It takes a lot more energy to bury pain than it does to confront it.
M.J. Abraham
#90. God is constantly talking to us but we can't hear him because we pay too much attention to the noise from the world. Genesis 12:22.
Felix Wantang
#91. We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
Abraham Lincoln
#92. If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
#93. Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.
Abraham Lincoln
#94. Abraham Maslow, I present to you Augustus Waters, whose existential curiosity dwarfed that of his well-fed, well-loved, healthy brethren.
John Green
#95. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln
#96. I want my kids to know that they're just as good and just as American as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Dr. Martin Luther King. My worst fear is they will become ordinary.
Rafe Esquith
#97. Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#98. After I die if I am buried I will rot. If I am burnt I will become ash but if my body is donated I will live to give life and happiness to many."
"Live life after death - pledge to donate your body.
Amit Abraham
#99. By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
Abraham Lincoln
#100. A drop of honey gathers more flies than a gallon of gall
Abraham Lincoln
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