Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.
REINHOLD NIEBUHRIt is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.
More Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
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History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
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[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.
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Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.
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It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.
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I think I have one answer, that is partly religious and partly secular; and that is to say, we ought to at least recognize that we and the Russians are in a common predicament. That would be religious in the sense, “Judge not lest you be judged.”
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Justice requires that we carefully weigh rights and privileges and assure that each member of a community receives his due share. Love does not weigh rights and privileges too carefully because it prompts each to bear the burden of the other.
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Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
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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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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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Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.
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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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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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If you equate God’s judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.
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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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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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