Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.
JIMMY CARTERI want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
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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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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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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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I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
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Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.
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It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
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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.
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Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.
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Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.
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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.
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You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
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Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
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