All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRThe churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
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Justice requires that we carefully weigh rights and privileges and assure that each member of a community receives his due share. Love does not weigh rights and privileges too carefully because it prompts each to bear the burden of the other.
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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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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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Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
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Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
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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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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 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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We Protestants ought to humbly confess that the theater and the sports have done more for race amity, for race understanding than, on the whole, the Protestant Church in certain type, in certain parts of the nation.
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The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.
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The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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Certainly, anybody who says, “in the eyes of God,” is pretentious.
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