You can’t say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRWe have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn’t interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet.
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If you equate God’s judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.
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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.
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Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.
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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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We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization.
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A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
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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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There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ”the good life,” which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.
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For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
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The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
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