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 "That ain't ordinary human nature—particularly when it's fightin' a war—that's God's nature. If that ain't what Christ had in mind, then I don't read the Bible right.

"Yes, sir, he prayed—that's what carried him on—and God heard him and helped him. Fact is I never knew a man I felt so sure God approved of as Abraham Lincoln."