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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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
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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Change Prayer Wisdom
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
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
…(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self’s capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.
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Self Spirituality Transcendence
It’s always wise to seek the truth in our opponents’ error, and the error in our own truth.
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Errors Opponents Wise
To be religious is not to feel, but to be.
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Feels Religious
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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Justice Politics World
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems.
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Men Problem Way
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 development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of the Marxist theory.
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Comb Marxist Theory
The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence. It can only be understood as a self-contradiction, made possible by the fact of his freedom but not following necessarily from it.
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Essence Men Self
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
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God Moral Revealed
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
Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It’s necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every individual has hopes, fears, ambitions, creative urges, that transcend the purposes of his society.
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Ambition Art Society Two
For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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Democracy Method Problem

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