 The will of God prevails. In great contests each 393 party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be and one must be wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible...  Abraham Lincoln: With Twenty-four Illustrations - Page 383by William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 397 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Humphrey Joseph Desmond - United States - 1924 - 280 pages
...curious passage written in a reflective moment: "The will of God prevails. In great contests, each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. In the present Civil War, it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1926 - 544 pages
...claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God can not be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil *In this period of his life Lincoln thought much upon religious questions and discussed them freely... | |
 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - 1917 - 534 pages
...meditation which was found after his death. " The will of God prevails," he wrote. " In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of...thing at the same time. In the present civil war it k quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party, and yet... | |
 | Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - Presidents - 1917 - 518 pages
...meditation which was found after his death. " The will of God prevails," he wrote. " In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of...thing at the same time. In the present civil war it ic quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party, and yet... | |
 | Richard N. Current - Biography & Autobiography - 1958 - 326 pages
...probably was written in September 1862. In it he wrote: "The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible... | |
 | Kenneth Winfred Thompson - Political Science - 1984 - 372 pages
...who asked him to emancipate all slaves forthwith. Here is what Lincoln said: In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of...be for and against the same thing at the same time. I'm approached with the most opposite opinions and advice and that by religious men who are equally... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 724 pages
...Yet the contest proceeds." "In the present civil war," Lincoln echoed his old doctrine of necessity, "it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party." Consequently, as he explained to an English Quaker a few weeks later, he had to believe "that He permits... | |
 | Paul F. Boller - History - 1996 - 292 pages
...discovered and published after his death. "The will of God prevails," he wrote. "In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against, the same thing at the same time. In the present... | |
 | William Scott Green, Jacob Neusner - Religion - 1996 - 300 pages
...note intended for his eyes only) what was going on: The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of...is something different from the purpose of either party—and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 208 pages
...Works of Abraham Lincoln, v. 3, p. 204. Rutgers University Press ( 1953, 1990). In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God can not be for and against the same thing at the same time. "Meditation on the Divine Will," [September... | |
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