A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRNothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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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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The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.
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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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It’s always wise to seek the truth in our opponents’ error, and the error in our own truth.
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Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.
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Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
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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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The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.
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Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
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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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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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Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
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