Abraham Lincoln, a believer

This past Monday was President's Day and with that in mind, I write about Abraham Lincoln as taken from the book Mr. Lincoln.
Lincoln believed in God. He believed that God was intimately concerned with human affairs, that nations as well as (humankind) were dependent upon him, that (people) and nations were punished for their sins, in this world and the next. He believed in the Bible as the best gift ever given by God to (humankind). And he believed with all humility that he himself was an instrument in the hands of God. Indeed, Lincoln was a man of...intense religiosity.
J. G. Randall in Mr. Lincoln