“…We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!
It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.”
– Abraham Lincoln
More Quotes:
“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience…
Yes, let us pray for the salvation of all of those who live in that totalitarian darkness — pray they will discover the joy of knowing God. But until they do, let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the Earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world.”
– Ronald Regan
“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience…
Yes, let us pray for the salvation of all of those who live in that totalitarian darkness — pray they will discover the joy of knowing God. But until they do, let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the Earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world.”
– Ronald Regan
“A free society is a moral achievement. It needs collective responsibility. It means seeing the world not as a place where I seek my own advantage, but where I care for the common good. And that, in turn, needs a sense of humility that we are not the masters of the universe but mere fragments of it, charged with the responsibility of handing it on to future generations enhanced, not diminished. That is the legacy of the Bible and its most powerful message to humanity.”
– Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, from Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times (2020):
We’ve been reminded of the words of the Book of James: ‘Faith without works is dead.’ I know that all of you are making your faith active through service to others. And that’s how we’re called to live out our faith — through the work of helping others, lifting up the least among us, and living for something larger than ourselves.”
– Barack Obama – National Prayer Breakfast (2014)
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