I found this great quote by President Abraham Lincoln this morning, and thought I would post it here on my blog in honor of President's Day on Monday (because on Monday my post will be dedicated to Brendan). I'm so grateful our nation has had such great leaders in the past, and wish our leaders today would take a lesson from them on the necessity of relying on God...
"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power ... But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with 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.” (ABRAHAM LINCOLN, proclamation appointing a National Fast Day, March 30, 1863)
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5 comments:
That is a terrific quote! I love it!
LOVE IT! I'm going to borrow it for my blog too, I hope you don't mind. You'll still get the credit.
That is a terrific quote. Jen you are awesome.
Ditto! Would that the politicians acted that way now.
Love the quote!
Isn't is interesting how the farther we get from the founding fathers the more we lose sight of the spirit and honor they had. Abe Lincoln could see it in his day. Is there anyone in our day that is saying the same thing or do the politicians think we are better than they were? Maybe it is a church thing, like, you have to believe in God to see how far we have fallen.
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