You can’t 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.
Published on June 21, 2016 , under Quotes
Love It 0Source: Jimmy Carter, Atlanta, Georgia Remarks to Members of the Southern Baptist Brotherhood Commission (June 16, 1978).
Complete Sentence: Separation is specified in the law, but for a religious person, there is nothing wrong with bringing these two together, because you can’t divorce religious beliefs from public service. And at the same time, of course, in public office you cannot impose your own religious beliefs on others.
