Quote by Abraham Lincoln
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!
Summary
This quote highlights the belief that despite America's abundance in prosperity, wealth, and power, the nation has become self-centered and disconnected from its reliance on God. The speaker warns that arrogance and self-sufficiency have led to a disregard for the higher power that has safeguarded and blessed the country. The passage suggests that going forward, the nation should humbly call upon the grace of God in order to remain redeemed and preserved.
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