Telling others how they can have eternal life is the greatest thing you can do for 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.'

God's purpose for my life is to increasingly grow in my personal knowledge of God as I follow Him in a life of faith. And then to make Him known to others.

The objective of World Missions is to establish a healthy, reproducing, independent Baptist Church in every locale in the world.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.

I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human tendency because of our culture to think that the more people I talk to, the bigger the impact I'll have, and yet Jesus didn't spend His time just speaking to the masses. He spent the bulk of his time with a small group of people.

I have considered the subject of missions nearly a year and have found my mind gradually tending to a deep conviction that it is my duty personally to engage in this service.

America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.

From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian life and zeal to share that life with others

In Christ we are given the courage and strength to change the world

If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor.