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.
JIMMY CARTERYou can not 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.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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.
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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
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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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Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.
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I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
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We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
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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.
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To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.
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We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this Nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face.
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I’ve never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn’t over yet.
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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.
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The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
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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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The truth is that male religious leaders have had – and still have – an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.
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Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.
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