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The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

Reinhold Niebuhr

It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.
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Charity Difficult Significant
Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
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Accomplished Life Lifetime Single
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 nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.
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Age Ideas People
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
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Cheese Good Wine
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
Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
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Admirer Few Friends Talent
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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Courage Steel Survival
A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
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Genuine Mysterious Mystery
The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they’re going to do and guarantees them victory; that’s why they’re fanatic.
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Communist Guarantees Victory
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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Country Giving People Religious
It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man’s belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
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Evil Justice Men
I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
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Clubs Thinking Together
I’m not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
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Attitude Father Kind
We misjudge anybody who’s different from us and the Jews diverge from our type, ethnically and religiously. That’s their chief offense, but there are particular causes.
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Causes Different Type
We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization.
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Believe Exercise Passion

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