“ He was too perplexed to please the conventional and too reverent. to please the infidels. ”
It is the vocation of the Christian in every generation to out-think all opposition.
~ Elton Trueblood
Lincoln had entirely outgrown juvenile delight in religious argument. Talking with God seemed to the mature Lincoln more important than talking about Him.
He (Lincoln) recognized the delicate balance between immanence and transcendence, refusing to settle for either of these alone. His was a God who was both in the world and above the world.
He (Lincoln) was accustomed to hearing words, many of them boring, but he was not accustomed to group silence.
