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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Reinhold Niebuhr

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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Courage Steel Survival
[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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Group Men Vices
I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
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Clubs Thinking Together
That is the truth about man – that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don’t understand.
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Dignity Men Misery
Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
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Form Modern
There 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.
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Achievement Good Life Philosophy
For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
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Desire Historical Men
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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Law Love Significance
I’ve long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I’ve long felt that the average Christian didn’t realize the tremendous capacity for civic righteousness among our Jewish people.
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Average Christian Thinking
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
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
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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Humans Intention Sin
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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Conscience History People Sake Themselves Tyranny
For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
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Democracy Method Problem
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
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Accomplishment Lifetime Success
What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
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Happiness Joy Laughter

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