That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRThe measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to which we become conscious of the real character of our own motives and impulses.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that’s one of the great achievements.
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The fanatic is dangerous.
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Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
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All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.
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We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization.
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We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.
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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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We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats – or Americans, whatever.
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Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
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All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
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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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It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man’s belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
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History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
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