“I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.”
Jimmy Carter
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“The blood of Abraham, God’s father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God–an anguished cry for peace.”
Jimmy Carter
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“If I should ever decide in the future to discuss my deep Christian beliefs and condemnation and sinfulness, I would use another forum besides Playboy.”
Jimmy Carter
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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
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“I have never been disappointed when I asked in a humble and sincere way for God’s help. I pray often. I think I pray more often since January 12th.”
Jimmy Carter
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“It’s almost impossible to deal with a crazy man, except that he does have religious beliefs, and the world of Islam will be damaged if a fanatic like him should commit murder in the name of religion against 60 innocent people.”
Jimmy Carter
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“I can’t change the teachings of Christ. I can’t change the teachings of Christ!… I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust … and God forgives me for it…. Christ says, Don’t consider yourself better than someone else.”
Jimmy Carter
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“Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this nation. This difficult effort will be the “moral equivalent of war,” except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy.”
Jimmy Carter
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“The root of the problem is not so much that our people have lost confidence in government, but that government has demonstrated time and again its lack of confidence in the people.”
Jimmy Carter
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“Our system of government, in spite of Vietnam, Cambodia, CIA, Watergate, is still the best system of government on earth. And the greatest resource of all are the 215 million Americans who still have within us the strength, the character, the intelligence, the experience, the patriotism, the idealism, the compassion, the sense of brotherhood on which we can rely in the future to restore the greatness to our country.”
Jimmy Carter
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“There is an enormous chasm between the relatively rich and powerful people who make decisions in government, business, and finance and our poorer neighbors who must depend on these decisions to alleviate the problems caused by their lack of power and influence.”
Jimmy Carter
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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.”
Jimmy Carter
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“A nation’s domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.”
Jimmy Carter
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“The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.”
Jimmy Carter
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“It would be naive to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically resolve the problems…. However, with faith and perseverance,… complex problems in the past have been resolved in our search for justice and peace. They can be resolved in the future, provided, of course, that we can think of five new ways to measure the height of a tall building by using a barometer.”
Jimmy Carter
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“There were two unpleasant surprises [about Washington]. One was the inertia of Congress, the length of time it takes to get a complicated piece of legislation through … and the other was the irresponsibility of the press.”
Jimmy Carter
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“Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.”
Jimmy Carter
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“I just look at death as not a threat. It’s inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life.”
Jimmy Carter
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“I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.”
Jimmy Carter
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“Martin Luther King, Jr., was the conscience of his generation…. He and I grew up in the same South, he the son of a clergyman, Ithe son of a farmer. We both knew from opposite sides, the invisible wall of racial segregation.”
Jimmy Carter
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