 | Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson - History - 2005 - 197 pages
...cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes...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,... | |
 | Don Hawkinson - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 470 pages
...pray to Almighty God for his or her country. He observed, "Both (the North and the South) read the same Bible, and pray to the same God: and each invokes...It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge... | |
 | John Channing Briggs - History - 2005 - 396 pages
...cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read die same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes...It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask ajust God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge... | |
 | Brian Weiner - Political Science - 2009 - 258 pages
...but then ultimately backs away and refrains from human judgment: "It may seem strange that any man should dare to ask a just god's assistance in wringing...of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged."76 It must be remembered that Lincoln's political purpose in the speech is "to do all... | |
 | Civilization - 2004 - 494 pages
...pointed out, believed they were fighting with God's support, although he could not refrain from adding: 'It may seem strange, that any men should dare to...their bread from the sweat of other men's faces.' No one, Lincoln went on, truly knows God's will. God, indeed, may wish the war to continue — and... | |
 | Patrick Deneen - Political Science - 2009 - 389 pages
...its prosecution, each side appealed to the ultimate source in justifying its cause: "Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other." Yet Lincoln expresses his (apparently mild) disapproval of the South's attempt to harness God on the... | |
 | Beate Hampe, Joseph E. Grady - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 500 pages
...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. [18] It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their... | |
 | Larry A. Witham - Religion - 2005 - 256 pages
...said about civil war applies to every other biblical, moral, and social disagreement: "Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other." The tensions can extend to the relations between clergy and laity, the other major group of workers... | |
 | A. A. Sorensen - 2005 - 404 pages
...more often ignored in practice." Paine was a religious skeptic. He observed, "Both sides study the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. They are our relatives, our brothers — how can we seek to murder them — or they us? Is that a Christian... | |
 | Stan-Joseph Jennings - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 191 pages
...be intentional." Thomas Jefferson, March 4,1801 "It may seem strange that any man should dare to ask God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces... With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the... | |
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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 not,... 
