 | Lenya Heitzig, Penny Pierce Rose - Bible - 2002 - 294 pages
...instead of an artist." Who knows what blessing awaits you at the end of your detour? contemplation The longer I live, the more convincing proofs i see of this truth, that God govems in the affairs of man. Benjamin Franklin DA '2 DIVINE ENCOUNTERS preparation Father, open my... | |
 | K. G. Powderly, Jr. - 2002 - 510 pages
...dyed-in-thewool deist like Benjamin Franklin had to say at the Constitutional Convention of June 28, 1787: / have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proof I see of the truth—that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to... | |
 | John W. Lawrence - Religion - 132 pages
...in the struggle, must have observed frequent instances of a superintending providence in our favor. "And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend? or...assistance? "I have lived, Sir, a long time; and the longer 1 live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, That God governs in the affairs of men! We... | |
 | Jay Grossman - History - 2003 - 292 pages
...rhetoric of Manifest Destiny that grow only more numerous over the course of the nineteenth century: I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth—that God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without... | |
 | William Lee Miller - Religion - 2003 - 300 pages
...when those notes became public to be quoted in dozens of sermons and pious tracts in the new country: "I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth—that God governs in the affairs of men." Franklin proposed that one or more of the clergy of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 588 pages
...providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that...powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need its assistance? I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - Constitutional history - 2003 - 808 pages
...Providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more... | |
 | James Burnham - History - 396 pages
...Providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imag1ne that we no longer need his assistance? I have lived. Sir, a long time, and the longer I live,... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 607 pages
...of lights to illuminate our understandings?" Then he added, in a passage destined to become famous, "The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth—that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without... | |
 | William J. Federer - Reference - 2004 - 504 pages
...society without religion. John Adams called it 'the best book in the world.' and Ben Franklin said, '...the longer I live, the more convincing proofs...this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men... without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders... | |
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I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. 
