We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
JIMMY CARTERAlways tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.
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I’d like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.
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I am no big shot. I am not anybody’s boss. I want to be everybody’s servant.
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Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.
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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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Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
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Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
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Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
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We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
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I believe that the boycott that we have against Cuba is counterproductive, and it also makes the twelve million or so Cuban people suffer unnecessarily just because of a foolish policy of the United States.
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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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Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.
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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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