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 CARTERWar 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.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.
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I have one life and one chance to make it count for something… My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
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When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
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America has no functioning democracy at this moment.
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We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don’t make us weak. They’re the source of our strength.
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You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
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Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.
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Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
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Jerry Falwell can go straight to hell – and I mean that in a Christian way.
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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
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The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
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I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
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Spirit is like the wind, in that we can’t see it but can see its effects, which are profound.
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