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I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Jimmy Carter

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
JIMMY CARTER

Life Live Ourselves
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 CARTER

Commitment Forgiveness Lust Myself Woman
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.
JIMMY CARTER

Ability Alignment Each Other Face Faith Government Restore Simplicity
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
JIMMY CARTER

Direction Hate Live Prevail
We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
JIMMY CARTER

Leadership War Weapon World
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
I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.
JIMMY CARTER

Challenge Constant Thinking War
We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.
JIMMY CARTER

Existence Hungry Peace Poverty World
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.
JIMMY CARTER

Marriage Myself People Personal Sexuality Word
I am convinced that UFOs exist because I’ve seen one.
JIMMY CARTER

Existence Myself See
I’d like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.
JIMMY CARTER

Human Peace Remember Right
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
JIMMY CARTER

Art Beautiful Different Dreams Hope Pieces
To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.
JIMMY CARTER

Deep Ourselves True
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
This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.
JIMMY CARTER

Equality Faith Inferior Play Prevent View Woman
Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
JIMMY CARTER

Life Moments Wonder
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
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
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
JIMMY CARTER

Believe Country History Ourselves People Time Worst
One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
JIMMY CARTER

Greatness Leadership Nation Time
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
JIMMY CARTER

Country Human Invention Reality Right
The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.
JIMMY CARTER

Deal Government Powerful Privilege Test
Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.
JIMMY CARTER

Community Division Nation
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.
JIMMY CARTER

Choice End Leadership Male Religious Teaching Truth
Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
JIMMY CARTER

Aggression Angry Sick
Jerry Falwell can go straight to hell – and I mean that in a Christian way.
JIMMY CARTER

Hell Myself Straight Way
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

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