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Daily Inspiration Quote by John Agyekum Kufuor

"With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history"

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“With God’s help and guidance” is doing double duty here: it’s devotional language and a political technology. As a statesman, Kufuor taps a shared religious vocabulary to lower the temperature and widen the tent. Invoking God doesn’t just express personal faith; it frames the coming resolution as morally sanctioned, almost inevitable. That matters in a plural, tense public sphere where raw power plays can look illegitimate. Providence becomes a soft seal of approval.

The phrase “we shall soon see the end” is calibrated optimism. “Soon” signals urgency without committing to a deadline that can be audited. “We shall” recruits the audience into a collective storyline, shifting responsibility from a single administration to a national “we” - the people, the institutions, the winners and losers. It’s a bid to convert spectators into stakeholders, and opponents into reluctant co-authors of the outcome.

Calling it “this most unpleasant chapter” is classic political euphemism: vivid enough to acknowledge pain, vague enough to avoid naming culprits. “Chapter” suggests something bounded and survivable - not a defining tragedy, but a passage that can be turned. It’s also a quiet instruction on memory: remember it as history, not as a live grievance. The subtext is reconciliation-by-reframing. Whatever crisis, scandal, or instability sits behind the line is being domesticated into narrative: a difficult section, not the whole book.

In contexts like Ghana’s hard-won democratic consolidation, that rhetorical move is practical. It reassures markets, allies, and citizens alike that continuity will outlast turmoil - and that the state is steering, not simply reacting.

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Kufuor, John Agyekum. (2026, January 15). With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/with-gods-help-and-guidance-we-shall-soon-see-the-151574/

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Kufuor, John Agyekum. "With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/with-gods-help-and-guidance-we-shall-soon-see-the-151574/.

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"With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/with-gods-help-and-guidance-we-shall-soon-see-the-151574/. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.

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John Agyekum Kufuor (born December 8, 1938) is a Statesman from Ghana.

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