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The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.

Reinhold Niebuhr

In the Old Testament, the God of the Prophets never was completely on Israel’s side. There was a primitive national religion, but it was always a transcendent God who had judgment first in the House of God.
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Country House Majesty People
For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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Democracy Method Problem
All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
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Grace Men Serenity
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.
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Catholic Country Men Misconception
History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
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Humans Natural Realms
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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Judgment Prophet
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
The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.
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Audience Eye Style
The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny of his fellows and to withdraw his activities from effective control.
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Real Running Sacrifice
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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Beautiful Complete Good Saved
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
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
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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Humans Intention Sin
To be religious is not to feel, but to be.
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Feels Religious
Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the desired goal of peace and justice.
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Drama Dream Moving
For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
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Desire Historical Men

The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.

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