| Patrick Deneen - 2009 - 389 pages
...darkly. He strongly acknowledged his belief in the righteous Providence of God in 1864 to Eliza Gurney, "the purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must...mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance" (2:627). These latter sentiments echo his 1862 words in his "Meditation on the Divine Will" that God's... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 2006 - 896 pages
...the country for their constant prayers and consolations, and to no one of them more than to yourself. The purposes of the Almighty are perfect and must...otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own errors therein. Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best light He gives us, trusting that so working... | |
| Gary Scott Smith - 2006 - 680 pages
...the contest proceeds." After two more years of death and destruction, Lincoln wrote to a Quaker that the "purposes of the Almighty are perfect and must...termination of this terrible war long before this," he added, "but God knows best and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge his wisdom and our... | |
| John Albert Murley, Sean D. Sutton - 2006 - 280 pages
...affairs. We return to the history upon which I have drawn: Once [Lincoln] wrote to Eliza P. Gurney: "The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must...hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war before this; but God knows best and has ruled otherwise." In conversation at the White House he spoke... | |
| David Runciman - 2009 - 223 pages
...full responsibility for the war he fought.27 In a letter of 4 September 1864, he wrote to a friend: We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible...this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise . . . Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion, which no mortal could make,... | |
| Richard Striner - 2006 - 320 pages
...him to strengthen his "reliance on God." "The purposes of the Almighty are perfect," Lincoln wrote, "and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We had hoped for a happy termination to this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has... | |
| Matthew S. Holland - 2007 - 340 pages
...Meditation on the Divine Will. Foreshadowings of Lincoln's Second Inaugural in this letter are numerous. The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must...therein. Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best light He gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends He ordains.24 For Lincoln,... | |
| Philip L. Ostergard - 2008 - 293 pages
...cannot understand. For the same feeling and expression of ideas, see chapter 15, "The Divine Will." The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must...therein. Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best light He gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends He ordains. Surely He... | |
| Carson Holloway - 2008 - 244 pages
...the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to none of them more than to yourself. The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must...God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall vet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein. Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best... | |
| Richard W. Kelsey - 2008 - 155 pages
...country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself. The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to perceive them accurately in advance. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before... | |
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