06/11/2026
One Sunday, September 20, 1998, to be exact, Jimmy Carter had nothing but time on his mind.
When the former president, who was a young 73 years old then, looked out at the congregants attending what had become his legendary Sunday School lessons at the Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, he quizzed them.
“What visitors can tell me what the Wisdom Books are?” he asked. It wasn’t a rhetorical question. In fact, most of the questions the 39th president of the United States asked were meant to be answered by people in his audience.
That was apparently understood as the visitors shouted out their answers to which he responded: “Very wise. Very good. I told you this was a high quality group.”
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