Barack Obama Quotes About Scripture

• Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.

  Barack Obama

  Heart, Scripture, Amnesty

  Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on Immigration, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 20, 2014.

• Our hearts are broken today for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these children and the families of the adults we lost....May god bless the memory of the victims and in the words of scripture heal the broken hearted and bind up their wounds.

  Barack Obama

  Brother, Children, Memories

  "Children and adults gunned down in Connecticut school massacre". news.blogs.cnn.com. December 14, 2012.

• Scripture tells us to "run with endurance the race that is set before us." As we do, may God hold close those who’ve been taken from us too soon.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Morning, Taken

  Barack Obama's Speech at Boston Marathon prayer service, www.politico.com. April 18, 2013.

• Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?

  Barack Obama

  Children, Muslim Faith, Mind Blowing

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

• We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.

  Barack Obama

  Ideas, Promise, Generations

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

• America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for. Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms to save. Not with so many families to protect and so many lives to mend. America, we cannot turn back. We cannot walk alone. At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future. Let us keep that promise - that American promise - and in the words of Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.

  Barack Obama

  Hope, Children, Cities

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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