Barack Obama Quotes About Jesus

• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Family, Christian, Mother

• 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. Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we're sinful and we're flawed and we make mistakes, and that we achieve salvation through the grace of God.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Jesus, Brother

  "Obama: 'A Christian by Choice'" by Kristin Brown, www.foxnews.com. September 28, 2010.

• All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of the three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra - (applause) - as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer. (Applause.)

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Mother, Jesus

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

• If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn't have to keep coming to church, would they.

  Barack Obama

  Jesus, Believe, People

  Interview with Cathleen Falsani, www.beliefnet.com. 2008.

• I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

  Barack Obama

  Jesus, Believe, Resurrection

  Interview with Sarah Pulliam, Ted Olsen, www.christianitytoday.com. January 23, 2008.

• This is something that I'm sure I'd have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and prostelytize. There's the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people haven't embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that they're going to hell.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

  "Obama on faith". The Patheos Interview, www.patheos.com. March 27, 2004.

• Jesus Christ is the LORD. I believe in that.

  Barack Obama

  Jesus, Believe, Christ

  "Obama Heckled As 'Antichrist' At Hollywood Fundraiser" by Zeke Miller, www.businessinsider.com. September 27, 2011.

• Jesus lived a life of peace, love, kindness and forgiveness, during the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, may we all do our best to follow his example.

  Barack Obama

  Love, Life, Forgiveness

• Good afternoon, everybody-ugh, Jesus, gimme a sec.

  Barack Obama

  Jesus, Afternoon, Ugh

• Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he's also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Jesus, Powerful

  "Transcript: Barack Obama and The God Factor Interview" by Cathleen Falsani, sojo.net. February 21, 2012.

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