 | Susan Jacoby - History - 2004 - 433 pages
...ministers in 1863 — the fact that both northern and southern combatants believed God to be on their side: 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 God's... | |
 | 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... | |
 | E.J. Dionne, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Kayla Meltzer Drogosz - Religion - 2004 - 260 pages
...Address, all the more remarkable for being uttered after almost four years of civil war: "Both [sides] 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 God's... | |
 | Frederick Dale Bruner - Religion - 2007 - 653 pages
...address is downright evangelical, profoundly spiritual, and yet prophetic: "Both jsides in the conflictj 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 God's... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease, or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each...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 God's... | |
 | Patrick Deneen - Political Science - 2009 - 389 pages
...Union. After all, he states, "Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each...triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding" (2:686). The resulting war was longer and more brutal than either side expected and yet, throughout... | |
 | John Channing Briggs - History - 2005 - 396 pages
...attained. Neither anticipated that die cause of die conflict might cease widi, or even before, die conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier...result less fundamental and astounding. Both read die same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - History - 2005 - 860 pages
...which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each...easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astonishing. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the... | |
 | Beate Hampe, Joseph E. Grady - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 500 pages
...that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. [16] Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. [17] Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.... | |
 | Jim Cullen - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 292 pages
...magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained," he said in words that apply to Vietnam as well. "Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding." Attributing blame not only to a slave-holding South, but also to a complacent and sinful North, he... | |
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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 God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces ; but let us judge... 
