Roberta

“faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts... [you] still experience the same greed, resentment, lust, and anger that everyone else experienced... the lines between sinner and saved [are] more fluid; the sins of those who come to church are not so different from the sins of those who don't... You [need] to come to church precisely because you [are] of this world, not apart from it; rich, poor, sinner, saved you [need] to embrace Christ precisely because you had sins to wash away... that religious commitment did not require me to suspend critical thinking, disengage from the battle for economic and social justice, or otherwise retreat from the world...”
― Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“America is big enough to accommodate all their dreams.”
― Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“That is the one thing that makes me a Democrat, I suppose - this idea that our communal values, our sense of mutual responsibility and social solidarity, should express themselves not just in the church or the mosque or the synagogue; not just on the blocks where we live, in the places where we work, or within our own families; but also through our government.”
― Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream