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History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.

Reinhold Niebuhr

That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.
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Catholic Country Men Misconception
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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Country House Majesty People
History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
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Humans Natural Realms
Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.
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Atheist Christian Men
All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.
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Coercion Cooperation Groups
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
Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
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Government Sky Stars
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.
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Admirer Few Friends Talent
Certainly, anybody who says, “in the eyes of God,” is pretentious.
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Anybody Eye Pretentious
A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.
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Genuine Mysterious Mystery
All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it’s a rather vapid form of religion.
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Materialism Thinking Vapid
In the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said, “If you could only get rid of the Bishop, then you’d be a true Christian”.
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Bishops Christian Kind
What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
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Happiness Joy Laughter
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems.
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Men Problem Way
The cross symbolizes a cosmic as well as historic truth. Love conquers the world, but its victory is not an easy one.
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Conquer Historic Victory World

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