In 1862, during prayer with Eliza Gueney and three other Quakers, Abraham Lincoln unburdened his heart.
“If I had my way this war would never have commended. If I had been allowed my way this war would have ended before this. But we find it still continues and we must believe that He permits it for some wise purpose of His own, mysterious and unknown to us, and though with our limited understanding we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we connot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.”