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Quotes from Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney — Barack Obama

born 1961 United States

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For too long, we’ve been blind to the unique mayhem that gun violence inflicts upon this nation.

Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney (2015)

This whole week, I’ve been reflecting on this idea of grace.

Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney (2015)

We don’t earn grace. We're all sinners. We don't deserve it. But God gives it to us anyway. And we choose how to receive it. It's our decision how to honor it.

Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney (2015)

If we can find that grace, anything is possible. If we can tap that grace, everything can change.

Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney (2015)

He gave it to us anyway. He’s once more given us grace. But it is up to us now to make the most of it, to receive it with gratitude, and to prove ourselves worthy of this gift.

Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney (2015)

I'm convinced that by acknowledging the pain and loss of others, even as we respect the traditions and ways of life that make up this beloved country -- by making the moral choice to change, we express God’s grace.

Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney (2015)

By recognizing our common humanity by treating every child as important, regardless of the color of their skin or the station into which they were born, and to do what’s necessary to make opportunity real for every American -- by doing that, we express God’s grace.

Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney (2015)

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