It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRFamily life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
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That’s much more dangerous than when people don’t believe anything; they may be confused, they may not have a sense of the meaning of life, but they’re not dangerous.
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The development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of the Marxist theory.
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Therefore we have a long history of freedom, where people try to extricate themselves from tyranny for the sake of art, for the sake of science, for the sake of religion, for the sake of the conscience of the individual – this freedom is necessary for the individual.
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The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there’s a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.
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All known existence points beyond itself.
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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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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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Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
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The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.
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The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.
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Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
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Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
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I’ve long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I’ve long felt that the average Christian didn’t realize the tremendous capacity for civic righteousness among our Jewish people.
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