We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
JIMMY CARTERWe must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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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Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of … permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.
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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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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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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’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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America has no functioning democracy at this moment.
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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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Always tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.
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We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes – and we must.
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Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
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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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I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it.
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God always answers prayers. Sometimes it’s ‘yes.’ Sometimes the answer is ‘no.’ Sometimes it’s ‘you gotta be kidding.
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I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.
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