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Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.

Reinhold Niebuhr

A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.
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Art Ignorance Wise
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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Justice Politics World
The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.
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Conquer Historic Victory World
To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.
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Effort Order Social
I think I have one answer, that is partly religious and partly secular; and that is to say, we ought to at least recognize that we and the Russians are in a common predicament. That would be religious in the sense, “Judge not lest you be judged.”
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Judging Religious Thinking
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
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God Moral Revealed
All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
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Grace Men Serenity
I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn’t give you any immediate answers, it doesn’t.
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Giving Religious Thinking
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
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Effort Finals Limits
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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Age Bound Leaps Reaction
Certainly, anybody who says, “in the eyes of God,” is pretentious.
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Anybody Eye Pretentious
The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.
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Law Love Significance
History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
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History Law May
A dogma which was intended to guarantee the economic freedom of the individual became the “ideology” of vast corporate structures of a later period of capitalism, used by them, and still used, to prevent a proper political control of their power.
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Capitalism Dogma Economic Freedom Guarantee
We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.
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Communism Order Risk War
A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
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Genuine Mysterious Mystery

Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.

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