Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

The people that usually have the most trouble with my books are the ones that pick them apart from a theological point of view.

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 don't know if the term 'liberation theology,' which can be interpreted in a very positive sense, will help us much. What's important is the common rationality to which the church offers a fundamental contribution, and which must always help in the education of conscience, both for public and for private life.

The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.

See the hand of God in all events, and thereby become reconciled to His dispensations.

Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.