01c. 1974 ADI've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something God recognizes I will do - and I have done it - and God forgives me for it.Jimmy Carter / quote ↗
02c. 1974 ADGod answers all our prayers. Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes the answer is no. Sometimes the answer is you've got to be kidding!Jimmy Carter / quote ↗
03c. 1974 ADI separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.Jimmy Carter / quote ↗
04c. 1974 ADIn religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.Jimmy Carter / quote ↗
05c. 1974 ADWe become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.Jimmy Carter / quote ↗
06c. 1974 ADWar 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 Carter / quote ↗
07c. 1974 ADWhen I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.Jimmy Carter / quote ↗
08c. 1974 ADIt's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.Jimmy Carter / quote ↗
09c. 1974 ADI was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.Jimmy Carter / quote ↗
10c. 1974 ADGlobalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.Jimmy Carter / quote ↗
11c. 1974 ADIn this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'Jimmy Carter / quote ↗
12c. 1974 ADIt is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.Jimmy Carter / quote ↗
13c. 1974 ADA fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.Jimmy Carter / quote ↗
14c. 1974 ADI believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.Jimmy Carter / quote ↗
15c. 1974 ADFor this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.Jimmy Carter / quote ↗
16c. 1974 ADI've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.Jimmy Carter / quote ↗
17c. 1974 ADI'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.Jimmy Carter / quote ↗
18c. 1974 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
19c. 1974 ADThe Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.Jimmy Carter / quote ↗
20c. 1974 ADThere's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.Jimmy Carter / quote ↗
21c. 1974 ADThe experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.Jimmy Carter / quote ↗
22c. 1974 ADIf you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.Jimmy Carter / quote ↗
23c. 1974 ADEver 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 / quote ↗
24c. 1974 ADUnfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.Jimmy Carter / quote ↗
