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The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.

Reinhold Niebuhr

To be religious is not to feel, but to be.
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Feels Religious
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
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Goodness Love Power
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
The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to which we become conscious of the real character of our own motives and impulses.
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Character Mean Real
All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
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Grace Men Serenity
For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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Democracy Method Problem
Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
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Government Sky Stars
All known existence points beyond itself.
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Existence Known Points
Therefore we have a long history of freedom, where people try to extricate themselves from tyranny for the sake of art, for the sake of science, for the sake of religion, for the sake of the conscience of the individual – this freedom is necessary for the individual.
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Conscience History People Sake Themselves Tyranny
History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
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Humans Natural Realms
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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Humans Intention Sin
The fanatic is dangerous.
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Dangerous Fanatics Life People
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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Communism Order Risk War
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
I’ve long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I’ve long felt that the average Christian didn’t realize the tremendous capacity for civic righteousness among our Jewish people.
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Average Christian Thinking
For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
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Desire Historical Men

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