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It is important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.

For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans job to remind Americans of that fact.

All are free to believe or not believe all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief.

Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I am all about fueling my faith, especially when it is hard to do so.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I have built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People do not know what to expect from me yet.

Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

The faith I was born into formed me.

I have spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world religions, and I have done my homework. I have gone to each of the world eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I have apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.