Quote by Barack Obama

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.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church ev

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This quote expresses the speaker's personal experience of not growing up in a religious household but finding their faith in Christianity later in life. Despite not being brought up in a churchgoing family, the speaker's mother was a deeply spiritual person. It was the moral principles and teachings of Jesus Christ that eventually resonated with the speaker and influenced the kind of life they aspired to live. The quote highlights how personal experiences and self-reflection can lead to an individual embracing their faith and finding meaning in particular religious beliefs.

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