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

Jimmy Carter

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
JIMMY CARTER

Different Ourselves People Sin
God always answers prayers. Sometimes it’s ‘yes.’ Sometimes the answer is ‘no.’ Sometimes it’s ‘you gotta be kidding.
JIMMY CARTER

Funny God Prayer Yourself
And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill – do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.
JIMMY CARTER

Country Myself Strength Wisdom World
The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with…greater joy, peace, and happiness.
JIMMY CARTER

God Happiness Harmony Joy Live Peace Strong Tying
To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.
JIMMY CARTER

Deep Ourselves True
We’ve got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.
JIMMY CARTER

Cry Home Need Requirement Start Strength Talk White
Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.
JIMMY CARTER

Education Oneself Right Security Support
I am convinced that UFOs exist because I’ve seen one.
JIMMY CARTER

Existence Myself See
We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
JIMMY CARTER

Knowledge Simplicity Solution Substitution
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.
JIMMY CARTER

Conservation Energy Permanent Preparation Quick
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
JIMMY CARTER

Children Each Other Goodness Necessary Time
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
JIMMY CARTER

Achievement Fear Human Mad Yourself
I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.
JIMMY CARTER

Drown Myself Trouble Wife
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.
JIMMY CARTER

Damage Drugs Possession
Spirit is like the wind, in that we can’t see it but can see its effects, which are profound.
JIMMY CARTER

Effect Spirit Wind
Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
JIMMY CARTER

Effort Fruit Struggle

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