You 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.
JIMMY CARTERCommunicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.
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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The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
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Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
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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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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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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.
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One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
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We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
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The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
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When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
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Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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