Jimmy Carter Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• Last year I was on Pat Robertson's show, and we discussed our basic Christian faith - for instance, separation of church and state. It's contrary to my beliefs to try to exalt Christianity as having some sort of preferential status in the United States. That violates the Constitution. I'm not in favor of mandatory prayer in school or of using public funds to finance religious education.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

• I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn't think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

  Jimmy Carter

  Father, Thinking, White

  "Jimmy Carter Interview: Real Story Behind Egypt Israeli Peace Deal". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

• I believe in the separation of church and state. The government has the right to say what happens in a civil case, like in a court house. And religious people have a right to say what happens in a church congregation. They are two completely separate things.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Believe, Two

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.

  Jimmy Carter

  Believe, Presidential, Church

• I believe in the separation of church and state and would not use my authority to violate this principle in any way.

  Jimmy Carter

  Believe, Presidential, Church

• Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between the church and state.

  Jimmy Carter

  Wall, Father, Church

• Some major churches overemphasize the importance of preaching as a means to increase membership and fail to reach out with compassion to their neighbors in need.

  Jimmy Carter

  Mean, Compassion, Church

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.207, Three Rivers Press

• There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I've always believed in the separation of church and state.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Party, Goal

  "SUNDAY INTERVIEW -- A Statesman And a Man Of Faith / With a lifetime of public service to his credit, the former president reflects on the beliefs that have sustained him". Interview with Don Lattin, www.sfgate.com. January 12, 1997.

• I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jesus, Believe, Men

  "Interview: President Jimmy Carter Talks About His New Bible and Christian Beliefs". Interview with Katherine T. Phan, www.christianpost.com. March 30, 2012.

• In general, in the matters that relate to theology or behavior, people to one another, Paul was obviously biblically correct. But when he said that women should always cover their hair or that women should not teach men, women should not have leadership positions in the church, women should not speak in the church, I don't' think that those writings of Paul can be extracted by themselves to stand alone. Also, Paul said that women should be subservient to their husbands but if you read a couple of verses down it says husbands should treat their wives as equals.

  Jimmy Carter

  Couple, Husband, Writing

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• I don't have any complaints about homosexuals being married in a civil ceremony. But I don't think that the government ought to require religious organizations, churches, should perform marriages between homosexuals if a local congregation decides otherwise. I believe in the autonomy of individual churches.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• The government and the church are two different realms of service, and those in political office have to face a subtle but important difference between the implementation of the high ideals of religious faith and public duty.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Government, Two

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.465, Simon and Schuster

• I think it's alright if the government wants to say, in the state of Massachusetts, in the state of New York, in the state of California, that civil ceremonies should be accepted, I think that should be fine. I don't think that even those states that believe in civil marriages between homosexuals or ordained in a church should perform civil ceremonies.

  Jimmy Carter

  New York, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• People in the United States, including me, are naturally inclined to support Israel. I'm an evangelical Christian who teaches the Bible every Sunday at my church. I teach half the Old Testament and half the New Testament. We Americans identify the Hebrews, the Israelites, with ourselves.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Sunday, Israel

  "Jimmy Carter takes on Israel’s Apartheid Policies and the Pro-Israeli Lobby in the US". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2006.

• When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I'm teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

  Jimmy Carter

  Teaching, Years, Church

  "Interview: President Jimmy Carter Talks About His New Bible and Christian Beliefs". Interview with Katherine T. Phan, www.christianpost.com. March 30, 2012.

• I believe strongly that in the eyes of God women and men should be the same and they should be given the same authority in the church, women should as men.

  Jimmy Carter

  Believe, Eye, Men

  "Interview: President Jimmy Carter Talks About His New Bible and Christian Beliefs". Interview with Katherine T. Phan, www.christianpost.com. March 30, 2012.

• I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.

  Jimmy Carter

  God, Political, Religion

  Jimmy Carter (1975). “Why Not the Best?: The First Fifty Years”, p.134, University of Arkansas Press

• I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jesus, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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