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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.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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Justice Politics World
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
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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Humans Intention Sin
Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
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Form Modern
The fanatic is dangerous.
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Dangerous Fanatics Life People
A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.
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Democracy Justice Republic
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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Goodness Love Power
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
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Accomplishment Lifetime Success
We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats – or Americans, whatever.
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Common Communist Predicaments
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
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Cheese Good Wine
A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
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Genuine Mysterious Mystery
Certainly, anybody who says, “in the eyes of God,” is pretentious.
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Anybody Eye Pretentious
All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
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Grace Men Serenity
To be religious is not to feel, but to be.
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Feels Religious
At least, nothing in the natural scene can arouse his bias. Furthermore, he stands completely outside of the natural so that his mind, whatever his limitations, approximates pure mind.
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Approximately Complete Leat Mind
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
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Accomplished Accomplishment Love

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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