We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion that we would deny them freedom of religion that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

No lover if he be of good faith and sincere will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

My parents shared not only an improbable love they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name Barack or blessed believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

My family frankly they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.