Quotes from Jimmy Carter

Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of ... permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

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.

I let God be the judge and I believe that we worship a just and fair God who won't punish innocent people unnecessarily.

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

I believe that we are saved by the grace of God because he loves us provided that we have faith in Jesus Christ.

I have never been disappointed when I asked in a humble and sincere way for God's help. I pray often. I think I pray more often since January 12th.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.

And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.

Elvis was a symbol of the country's vitality, rebelliousness, and good humor.

There was never any question about the morality of hunting, but neither was there any acceptance of killing for the sake of a trophy.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

All my playmates on the farm were black, and later, when I started school in Plains, it was all white. But I was always eager to get back home to my friends in Archery.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.

God always answers prayer, sometimes with a yes, sometimes with a no and sometimes with a 'You've got to be kidding!'

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.