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...reassessed his life and became a "born-again" Christian. "The presence of my belief in Christ is the most important thing in my life," says Carter. "I'm not ashamed of it." But he stresses that he feels no "special relationship" with God in politics: "I don't pray to God to let me win an election. I pray to ask God to let me do the right thing." There is no evidence that Carter has ever forced his religious views on anyone. In fact, he does

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the Year: I'm Jimmy Carter, and... | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

CALIFORNIA SUITE. Neil Simon in top comic form, and who, pray who, can top that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Year's Ten Best | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...work day is spent knocking on the doors of the aging. As I wait for an elderly woman to move the boxes and chair which block the door before she can remove the chain and turn the two locks on her too thin door, I pray that the fire trap in which she and many others live will not burst into flames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 20, 1976 | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...tens of thousands, bringing balloons and flowers and images of the Virgin Mary. At the gateway to the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, at the northern edge of Mexico City, many of the Roman Catholic pilgrims drop to their knees to shuffle painfully forward as they pray for forgiveness. On any day there are crowds at this most venerated shrine in the Americas, but on Dec. 12, the Day of Guadalupe, the crowds turn into a tidal wave of humanity. This week for the first time the day is being celebrated in a huge new basilica, a structure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A New Shrine for the Brown Virgin | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...would moreover be bad Politicks to disinvite the entire Country. Maybe your Luck will hold and most Everyone will have made other plans for that day. If not, the only advice I can proffer - now that you have stepp'd forthrightly into a potential Swamp - is to pray (a Skill of yours I much admire) and bann the consumption of intoxicating Spirits. You may remember one of my Famous Sayings: "One man with courage makes a majority." Much of my early life was spent in the Co. of soldiers, and I know how compleatly liquor can buttress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Ol' Hickory to Y'ng Peanut | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

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