Jimmy Carter Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• Except during my childhood, when I was probably influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel depiction of God with a flowing white beard, I have never tried to project the Creator in any kind of human likeness. The vociferous debates about whether God is male or female seem ridiculous to me. I think of God as an omnipotent and omniscient presence, a spirit that permeates the universe, the essence of truth, nature, being, and life. To me, these are profound and indescribable concepts that seem to be trivialized when expressed in words.

  Jimmy Carter

  God, Thinking, Essence

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.222, Three Rivers Press

• 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.

• The existing and long-standing use of the word 'evolution' in our state's textbooks has not adversely affected Georgians' belief in the omnipotence of God as creator of the universe, There can be no incompatibility between Christian faith and proven facts concerning geology, biology, and astronomy. There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend our religious faith.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Religious, Stars

  "Carter slams Georgia's 'evolution' proposal". The CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. January 30, 2004.

• I think the Bible is completely inspired by God in its overall messages. But, for the people of those days to know what was going to happen 4,000 years later in a world of astronomy or subatomic particles. They didn't have access to the knowledge that we presently have about geology. So, we know now that the world was created many of billions of years ago, 13 or 14 billion years ago. As far as they knew, the earth was the center of the universe. They thought that stars were little twinkling things in the sky where as now we know stars are very distant and much larger than the earth.

  Jimmy Carter

  Stars, Thinking, Sky

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it.

  Jimmy Carter

  Nature, Greatness, Way

  Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.6, University of Arkansas Press

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