Jimmy Carter Quotes

I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.

Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.

Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

Then I proceeded to Williamsburg, where I found all well. I went to the capitol where I sent for the wench to clean my room and when I came I kissed her and felt her, for which God forgive me.... About 10 o’clock I went to my lodgings. I had good health but wicked thoughts, God forgive me.

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

There is some consensus: There's obsession, there's never satiety, and there's always remorse. For me, the big thing is that you're always breaking a promise - for example, you promise yourself you're just going to have coffee with a man, then before you know it, you're in bed together.

People who have lust in their heart as just as guilty as those who commit adultery.

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin....though sins can be forgiven immediately - the consequences can last a lifetime

I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.

A lot of us have developed a diet mentality toward lust. We really want to cut back on lust because we know its not healthy and it makes us feel bad. But like some rich, calorie-laden chocolate dessert, lust is just too tasty to resist completely. Surely God will understand if we break our diet and nibble a little lust now and then.

Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.