When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.

I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put myself in God's hands, to trust in Jesus who - while I wrote my book on him - I felt bound to by an old and more profound friendship.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live.

The wisest men follow their own direction And listen to no prophet guiding them. None but the fools believe in oracles, Forsaking their own judgment.

And whatso man they call Happy, believe not ere the last day fall!

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story.

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

Like so many men he had found that he had only one or two ideas - that his little collection of pamphlets now in its fiftieth German edition contained the germ of all he would ever think or know.

An idea ran backward and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.