Jimmy Carter in A Time to Heal

On Principles & Values: Lusted in his heart & feels forgiven by God

In late September, Playboy magazine released an interview in which Carter said some remarkable things. "I've looked on a lot of women with lust," Carter confessed. "I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognized I will do--and I have done it--and God forgives me for it. But that doesn't mean that I condemn someone who not only looks on a woman with lust but who leaves his wife and shakes up with somebody out of wedlock. Christ says don't consider yourself better than someone else because one guy screws a whole bunch of women while the other guys is loyal to his wife." And then he continued, "I don't think I would ever take on the same frame of mind that Nixon or Johnson did-lying, cheating and distorting the truth." Source: A Time To Heal, by Gerald Ford, p.416-417 Sep 1, 1976

The above quotations are from A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford. Click here for other excerpts from A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford. Click here for other excerpts by Jimmy Carter. Click here for a profile of Jimmy Carter.
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