Jimmy Carter Quotes

I believe in a kind of God. I think all scientists, in a way, believe in a certain God, in a certain order of nature.

The more I try to unravel the mysteries of the world in which we live, the more I come to the conception of a single overruling power - God.

Anything you think you know about about God, that you can't find in the person of Jesus, you have reason to question.

This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.

The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

God is a verb, not a noun.

The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

I want to tell everybody that there is really a living God.

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that.

I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.

What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.

My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.

I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not.

I have the feeling that behind a certain dimension we cannot anymore see, understand, feel, smell, hear - nothing. What people are calling God I am not defining, but I am a 'possibilitiest.'

It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side of my life come from a sense of connection to the humankind and nature on this planet and in the universe. I am in overwhelming awe of it all: It is so fantastic, so complex, so beyond comprehension. What does it all mean -- if it has any meaning at all? But how can it all exist if it doesn't have some kind of meaning? I think anyone who suggests that they have the answer is motivated by the need to invent answers, because we have no such answers.