Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRThe separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn’t interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man’s belief in justice that makes democracy possible.
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Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
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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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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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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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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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You can’t say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.
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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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History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.
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For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices.
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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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Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
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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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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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