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All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

Reinhold Niebuhr

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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Courage Steel Survival
Certainly, anybody who says, “in the eyes of God,” is pretentious.
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Anybody Eye Pretentious
Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
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Government Sky Stars
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems.
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Men Problem Way
Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.
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Facts Laughter Prayer
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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Fellow Impulse Men Needs
[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.
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Group Men Vices
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
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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Capitalism Dogma Economic Freedom Guarantee
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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Goodness Love Power
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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Humans Intention Sin
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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Justice Life Rights
Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.
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Common Kind Sense Thinking
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
We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization.
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Believe Exercise Passion
This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor.
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Hypocrisy Moments Self

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