 | Keith F. Pecklers - Religion - 2003 - 244 pages
...worship. Writing after the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln articulated such divisions among the rival camps: 'Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God;...It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us not judge... | |
 | Susan Jacoby - History - 2004 - 433 pages
...Lincoln's contemporaries saw this section of the speech as a muddle. The president's declaration that "it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask...wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces" was greeted by the audience, according to the New York Herald, as "a satirical observation," which... | |
 | Adam Braver - Fiction - 2004 - 321 pages
...morning he'll wake up and walk away from tonight. çr ex l> Letter to President Lincoln from a Good Girl It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask...assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men' s faces. — MARCH 4, 1865 - i Mr. Lincoln, I'm just a someone from southern Pennsylvania who's... | |
 | William Charles Harris - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 332 pages
...(the Almighty, Lord), on eight occasions. He began with an irony. Both sides in the conflict, he said, "read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and...His aid against the other." "It may seem strange," he continued, "that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from... | |
 | James M. Gustafson - Religion - 138 pages
...tradition. Though some name the Almighty "Allah" and others a Trinity, in effect, as Lincoln said, both "pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any man should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's... | |
 | Jeremy Roberts - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 120 pages
...the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. . . . Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other." Lincoln then suggested that God gave America — both North and South — the war as punishment for... | |
 | Evan Wolfson - Law - 2007 - 258 pages
...religious self-righteousness, Abraham Lincoln long ago noted that during the Civil War, "Both [sides] read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other." Lincoln, a man of immense moral character and vision, urged his fellow countrymen, us, both to act... | |
 | David Wyatt - Cape Cod (Mass.) - 2004 - 324 pages
...nears his close, he considers the paradox that in this struggle between two sides, "Both read from the same Bible and pray to the same God and each invokes his aid against the other." I want no invocation of God in any fight to which I am a party. This has nothing to do with believing... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...conflict might cease, or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both...judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both should [sic; Lincoln said "could" — eds.] not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully.... | |
 | Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson - History - 2005 - 197 pages
...might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both...seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just (rod's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces : but let us judge not,... | |
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Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just G-od's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces ; but let us judge... 
