Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRThere are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ”the good life,” which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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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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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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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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Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.
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The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.
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All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.
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Liberalism and Marxism share a common illusion of the “children of light.” Neither understands property as a form of power which can be used in either its individual or its social form as an instrument of particular interest against the general interest.
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Adam Smith’s was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural harmony of interests within each nation… But the “children of darkness” were able to make good use of his creed.
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Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.
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Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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No nation can say, ‘We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate – to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one’ – no nation can do that.
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If you equate God’s judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.
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There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that’s one of the great achievements.
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