The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with...greater joy, peace, and happiness.
Interpretation
Our connection to a higher power can lead to a more fulfilling and harmonious life.
This quote by Jimmy Carter suggests that the strength of our spiritual ties, particularly those with God, significantly influences our emotional and behavioral states. When these ties are strong, we are more inclined to experience joy, peace, and happiness, reflecting the impact of our spiritual beliefs on our daily lives and interactions with others.
In practice
In a sermon discussing the importance of faith in daily life.
Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these realities is the first step in dealing with them. We can meet the resource problems of the world - water, food, minerals, farmlands, forests, overpopulation, pollution - if we tackle them with courage and foresight.
The preeminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine.
I would say the biggest handicap we have right now is some nutcases in our country that don't believe in global warming. I think they are going to change their position because of pressure from individuals, because the evidence of the ravages of global warming is already there.
If I were president, I'd be very glad to see the Palestinians have a nation recognized by the United Nations. There's no downside to it.
My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
I don't think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one reads.
Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.
Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.
If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood and be forced to confront human limitation for what it is: a fixture of life.
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