At the start of Sunday's presidential debate, the four Democratic candidates were asked "in terms of your own spirituality, if you prefer religiosity" to complete the sentence, "This I believe..." Here are their:
"I believe in God. And I believe in the power of redemption, and the capacity of individual human beings to be able to make a difference, because, as President Kennedy said, 'Here on Earth, God's work must truly be our own.'"_ John Kerry.
"I believe we live in a country where there are two different Americas, one for people who get everything they need every single day, and one for everybody else. And I believe that the president of the United States, with the Lord's help, has the power to change that." — John Edwards.
"I believe in God, but I believe that God created us for a purpose. I believe that God has blessed this country immeasurably. The question is whether this country will bless God. So the way we can judge that is how we treat each other, human rights, in the many Americas.
I believe there are many Americas, not just poor and rich, but of many colors, of many religions, of many sexual orientations.
How we deal with one another, how we provide for one another, how we protect one another, is how we determine whether we are worthy of the blessings that God has given us." — Al Sharpton.
"I believe that we're here to bring spiritual principles into the material world. And reflecting the words in Matthew 25, 'When I was hungry, did you feed me? When I was homeless, did you shelter me?' We have a purpose here on this earth to try to help this — lift this world up." — Dennis Kucinich.