Jimmy Carter Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hate, Teaching, Smugness

• We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, Softball, Religion

  Speech to Bible class at Plains, Georgia, March 1976, in Boston Sunday Herald Advertiser 11 Apr. 1976

• Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I've seen the profound impact he's had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Couple, Hero

• I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don't have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don't adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Years, Doubt

  "President Jimmy Carter Authors New Bible Book, Answers Hard Biblical Questions". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

• Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and justifying their belief on an erroneous interpretation of Hebrew Scriptures. "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," their most likely response, overlooks the fact that this was promulgated by Moses as a limitation- a prohibition against taking both eyes or all of an offender's teeth in retribution.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Jesus, Eye

  Jimmy Carter (2005). “Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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

  Jimmy Carter

  Jesus, Believe, Grace

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

• The most important Bible teaching that I remembered when I was in the Navy and when I was Commander-in-Chief, was that we worshipped The Prince of Peace. Jesus Christ is The Prince of Peace. So, I considered myself, as a submarine officer, as helping to preserve the peace. And I felt the same way when I was president.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jesus, Teaching, Navy

  "President, Peanut Farmer and Sunday School Teacher". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

• Homosexuality was massively practiced in some of the conflicting religions at the time of Christ and even at the time of Christ, in Roman times show that homosexuality was widely prevalent. I think it's quite significant that Jesus never did mention it.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jesus, Thinking, Christ

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• I have a very personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It doesn't depend on the fact that he can walk on water.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jesus, Water, Facts

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

• Jesus is the Son of God, we have a chance for God's blessings, God's salvation through our faith in Jesus Christ and all of us are sinners who fall short of the glory of God, and the wages of sin is death but through our faith that Jesus Christ, we can be saved.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jesus, Fall, Son

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