I'm having a blast, and have big plans that I hope we can all rally around regardless of political belief. I have been thinking about and preparing a plan to fight back for years.
God wins, but God wins by acting through us.
We fight thought control. Don't get to caught up in your own perspective - you could be right, but you could be wrong
And if it doesn't work out that is God's plan as well and we will have fun and learn along the way
Sir, you are not only a gentleman and a scholar but you are channeling none other than Abe Lincoln. Your last 3 lines are Lincoln's underlying theme for his 2nd Inaugural Address as was detailed in a paper he wrote that was found after his death. You absolutely nailed it. Here's some detail:
"Lincoln's point seems to be that God's purposes are not directly knowable to humans, and represents a theme that he had expressed earlier. After Lincoln's death, his secretaries found among his papers an undated manuscript now generally known as the "
Meditations on the Divine Will." In that manuscript, Lincoln wrote:
The will of God prevails—In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both
may be, and one
must be wrong. God cannot be
for, and
against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is somewhat different from the purpose of either party—and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect this.
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Lincoln's sense that the divine will was unknowable stood in marked contrast to sentiments popular at the time. In the popular mind, both sides of the Civil War assumed that they could read God's will and assumed His favor in their opposing causes.
Julia Ward Howe's "
Battle Hymn of the Republic" expressed sentiments common among the supporters of the U.S. cause, that the U.S. was waging a righteous war that served God's purposes. "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord..." Similarly, the
Confederacy chose
Deo vindice as its
motto, often translated as "God will vindicate us."
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Lincoln, responding to compliments from
Thurlow Weed on the speech, said that "... I believe it is not immediately popular. Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them."
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