...assurance. I try not to commit a deliberate sin. I recognize that I'm going to do it anyhow, because I'm human and I'm tempted. And Christ set some almost...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...

...saying, "I cannot forgive." Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American clergyman, editor, writer 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. Jimmy Carter (b. 1924) American president (luring presidential...

...his belief that one should not feel superior to another because of less obvious sin, Carter admitted, "I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. . . . But that doesn't mean that I condemn someone who not only looks on a woman with lust but who...

...is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act. (Saint Augustine (354-430 AD), in Seldes, 1985) I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed...and I have done it— and God forgives me for it. (Jimmy Carter (1924- ), in Augarde, 1991) Sanctions against affairs often vary with duration, deception,...

...grounded in religious language as Carter was. Thus, when Carter confessed to Playboy magazine that "I've looked on a lot of women with lust, I've committed adultery in my heart many times," a nation guffawed. It did Carter little good that he was simply paraphrasing one of Jesus' better-known...

...woman with lust has in his heart already committed adultery." Then, Carter matter-of-factly admitted: I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed...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...

...conversation in an unexpected direction that produced snickers across the country. Said the candidate: "I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed...and I have done it — and God forgives me for it." Carter was swept along by his ruminations, and Scheer's tape recorder gobbled up the confessional....

...Hamilton Jordan later called "the weirdo factor" by admitting, in a controversial Playboy interview, "I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times." Also, in the first of a series of three crucial debates, Carter listed Lyndon Johnson with Richard...

...network news. "I've committed adultery in my heart many times," Jimmy Carter confessed to the magazine. 'This is something that God recognizes 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 leaves his...

...can nonetheless be acknowledged. In 1976, presidential candidate Jimmy Carter told an interviewer, "I'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."229 The statement caused...