Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.
JIMMY CARTERCommunicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.
JIMMY CARTERThe measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
JIMMY CARTERWe cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
JIMMY CARTERAggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
JIMMY CARTERWar 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 CARTERJerry Falwell can go straight to hell – and I mean that in a Christian way.
JIMMY CARTERWe cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
JIMMY CARTERWe will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
JIMMY CARTERIt’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
JIMMY CARTERI’m not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious faith would have ascendance over or preferential treatment over any other.
JIMMY CARTERThe 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 CARTERI am convinced that UFOs exist because I’ve seen one.
JIMMY CARTERFaith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.
JIMMY CARTERIf you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
JIMMY CARTERThe bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
JIMMY CARTERHuman identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.
JIMMY CARTER