It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972 the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.

In religious and in secular affairs the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion if you're a moderate on gun control or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong good or bad with us or against us.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith love of freedom intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

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.

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong you pull that parachute and the whole plane goes down slowly.

When an action is once done it is right or wrong for ever no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

When you're fearless you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

There's no right or wrong success or failure.